Software Engineering Technical Leader

About the role

Cisco Isovalent, the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, is looking for a Software Engineering Technical Leader in Zurich. The role focuses on troubleshooting, maturing and improving the reliability and scalability of Isovalent products, including building and enhancing a Kubernetes-native control plane for managing network traffic in cloud and hybrid enterprise environments.

Key responsibilities

• Build and enhance a Kubernetes-native control plane for scalable, secure and resilient traffic management.
• Develop high-quality Go and eBPF code for Cilium OSS and Enterprise, following open source principles and best practices.
• Debug, troubleshoot and resolve performance, reliability and security issues in the control plane.
• Design highly scalable solutions to run Cilium reliably in very large environments.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions and contribute to technical documentation.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience programming in Go.
• 2+ years of experience with eBPF.

Required skills

• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud native workloads and/or distributed systems.
• Experience with routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF or similar, implementation and/or hands-on.
• Preferred: Linux systems design, security and networking, Linux kernel, API design and implementation, data center networking technologies (EVPN/VXLAN, SRv6 or similar).
• A public track record of open-source code commits is a plus.