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Software Engineer

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Description

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Isovalent Networking for Virtualization engineering team. As a software engineer, you are tasked with implementing features, root-causing and fixing bugs, and performing maintenance tasks on the codebase, together with the team. You are eager to dive headfirst into complex problems, resourceful in finding novel approaches to overcome them, and capable of clearly communicating your ideas.

Responsibilities

  • Work on delivering the roadmap together with the team
  • Develop and review high-quality Go and eBPF code for Cilium open-source and Enterprise edition codebases
  • Collaborate on architecture and design of distributed systems, such as working on cluster mesh
  • Integrate with traditional datacenter networking protocols
  • Contribute to and uphold engineering best practices, code quality, and operational excellence

Minimum Qualifications

  • Strong communication skills and proven ability to work in collaborative environments
  • Experience with any of Go/Rust/C/C++/Zig or other systems programming languages
  • Experience in professional software engineering and the ability and desire to write high-quality and efficient code
  • Familiarity with Linux, networking, and distributed systems in general

Preferred Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
  • Experience with Go and/or eBPF
  • Experience in cloud-native datacenter networking
  • Experience in managing production Kubernetes clusters, SRE principles, and infrastructure automation tools
  • Experience in writing code to interact with Kubernetes
  • Experience with Cilium and/or other CNIs
  • Open-source contributions in relevant projects

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • cloud-native datacenter networking
  • Kubernetes
  • CNIs

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