Principal Engineer - Isovalent Secure Workload Observability

Role Description

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.

As a Principal Engineer with our Backend Services team, you will:

• Provide technical leadership to a team of highly motivated engineers.
• Focus on improving Scale, Performance, Reliability, Robustness, and Security.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), advising on technical vision, roadmaps, and leadership.
• 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 a highly scalable manner to a large number of enforcement points.
• Implement API endpoints that respond with minimal latencies even when processing large volumes of data.
• Be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments with unique failure modes.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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 involving rapid prototyping based on feedback from customers, peers, and technical solution architects.
• A software engineering technical leader who enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities.

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.
• 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, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness.
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees.
• Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees.
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units.