Principal Engineer - Isovalent Secure Workload Observability (remote)

This position is remote within the U.S., with a strong preference for those in the greater San Jose CA metro area who can attend meetings at the office as needed.

About the Team

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF. Cisco Secure Workload is a flagship security product offering workload protection, micro-segmentation, and is part of the Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution. Cisco Isovalent and Cisco Secure Workload are together building the next generation of products for securing workloads and AI infrastructure.

We believe in fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where every team member feels valued, respected, and empowered. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and join us in our mission to deliver exceptional products and services.

Your Impact

We are a highly dynamic engineering organization that works on building software for workload security products that cater to highly complex and scalable customer environments to protect their crown jewel application workloads from increasingly complex threat vectors.

As a Principal Engineer with our Backend Services team, you will work with and provide technical leadership to a team of highly motivated engineers working on solutions to ship or deploy for our customers, with a focus on improving Scale, Performance, Reliability, Robustness, and, most importantly, Security.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), advising on technical vision, roadmaps, leadership, and make architectural contributions in backend services that:
  • Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments
  • React to changes in environment and render policies in highly scalable manner to large number of enforcement points
  • Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data
  • Will be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments

Requirements

• At least 10+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java
• At least 5+ years in a technical leadership role in a software engineering environment
• Masters + 10 years related experience, or Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years related experience or equivalent related work experience; degree to be in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Agile experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
• Proficiency with Golang
• Schema/Data modeling design experience
• Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
• Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
• Experience working with security architecture and database design
• Kubernetes experience
• Experience programming using cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP
• A technical leader who embraces agile methodologies that involve rapid prototyping by feedback gathered from customers, peers and technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers and support engineers
• A software engineering technical leader who enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless.

We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $250,600.00 to $362,600.00 for new hires in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

For certain locations, the full salary range is listed below:

• New York City Metro Area: $250,600.00 - $416,900.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $241,400.00 - $371,000.00

For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Eligibility to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time
• Paid time away:
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
  • Paid year-end holiday shutdown
  • 4 paid days off for personal wellness
  • Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
  • Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
  • Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
• Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan