Technical Leader - Isovalent Secure Workload (Observability) (remote)
About the Team
Iovalent, 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 Technical Lead, 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. In this role you’ll provide technical 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 6+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java
- Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
- Agile experience
- Bachelor's degree with 6 years of related experience, Master's with 4 years, PhD with 2 years, or equivalent combination of education and experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
- 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 professional 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 technically skilled 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. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.
Pay
The starting salary range for this position is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 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: $186,900.00 - $307,800.00
- Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $166,300.00 - $274,100.00
For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
Benefits
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include:
- 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, subject to Cisco’s policies:
- 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
- Eligibility to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies (for non-sales roles)
- For sales roles, employees 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