Software Engineering Technical Leader

About the role

Cisco Isovalent, founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, builds open-source software and enterprise solutions for networking, security and observability in cloud-native infrastructure. It is looking for a Software Engineering Technical Leader in Zurich to troubleshoot, mature and improve the reliability and scalability of its products, working with a collaborative team to advance the next generation of networking and security in Kubernetes environments.

Key responsibilities

• Build and enhance a Kubernetes-native control plane for managing network traffic in cloud and hybrid enterprise environments
• 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
• Take part 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
• Preferred: experience designing and implementing APIs, and a public track record of open-source code commits

Required skills

• Go and eBPF
• Kubernetes, cloud-native workloads and/or distributed systems
• Routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF or similar (implementation and/or hands-on)
• Preferred: Linux systems design, security and networking, Linux kernel, data center networking (EVPN/VXLAN, SRv6)