Technical Lead - Kubernetes Platform (Hypershield)

About the role

Cisco is looking for a Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead for its Hypershield platform in Zurich. You will architect and deliver core components of a highly scalable platform that extends availability across multiple hypervisors, working with senior technical leadership to turn architectural goals into robust, high-performance code that meets strict scalability and security standards.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with application teams and infrastructure providers to understand workload requirements and hypervisor constraints, and use performance metrics and system signals to validate architectural decisions.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and own the implementation of a defined feature set or workstream, translating priorities into technical requirements, SLIs/SLOs and execution plans.
• Work with Engineering, Security and Data teams to design dynamic scalability and a hardened security posture, managing cross-functional dependencies, tracking risks and resolving blockers.
• Support platform readiness and operational excellence through technical documentation, complex customer escalations, and monitoring platform health and adoption after deployment.
• Use AI tools responsibly to speed up development, code analysis and prototyping, and share engineering best practices and design patterns.

Required profile

• 9+ years of experience building software systems in one or more languages such as Go or Python.
• Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment and Agile experience.
• Degree with 11+ years of related experience, Master's with 9+, PhD with 4+, or equivalent education and experience; 10 years of relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree.

Required skills

• Go or Python
• Kubernetes (preferred: Cluster API, Gateway APIs, Operators)
• Cloud platforms AWS, Azure or GCP (preferred)
• Preferred: computer science fundamentals, large-scale event processing, systems programming, security architecture and distributed systems