Software Engineering Technical Leader - Networking for Virtualization

About the role

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is looking for a software engineer to join its Networking for Virtualization engineering team in Zurich. You will implement features, root-cause and fix bugs and carry out maintenance on the codebase, working closely with the team on complex problems.

Key responsibilities

• Work on delivering the roadmap together with the team
• Develop and review high-quality Go and eBPF code for the Cilium open-source and enterprise codebases
• Collaborate on the architecture and design of distributed systems, such as cluster mesh
• Integrate with traditional datacenter networking protocols
• Contribute to and uphold engineering best practices, code quality and operational excellence

Required profile

• Strong communication skills and a proven ability to work in collaborative environments
• Professional software engineering experience and a desire to write high-quality, efficient code
• Preferred: degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Preferred: experience in cloud-native datacenter networking, managing production Kubernetes clusters, SRE principles and infrastructure automation tools, and open-source contributions

Required skills

• Experience with Go, Rust, C++ or Zig or another systems programming language
• Familiarity with Linux, networking and distributed systems
• Preferred: Go and/or eBPF, Kubernetes, Cilium and other CNIs