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Software Engineer

Cisco Isovalent Zurich senior full-time

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Description

Cisco Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is seeking a skilled and experienced Software Engineer to troubleshoot, mature, and improve the reliability and scalability of Isovalent Products.

You will be responsible for building and enhancing a Kubernetes-native control plane to provide seamless management of its network traffic, enabling scalable, secure, and resilient traffic management in cloud and hybrid enterprise environments.

You will work with a highly collaborative and skilled team to build solutions that advance the next generation of networking and security in Kubernetes environments.

Responsibilities:

  • Developing high-quality Go and eBPF code for Cilium OSS and Enterprise, while following open source development principles and best practices.
  • Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve performance, reliability, and security issues in the control plane.
  • Design highly scalable solution to reliably run Cilium in very large environments.
  • Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and contribute to technical documentation.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelors Computer Science degree, or related fields
  • 5+ years of experience programming in Go
  • 2+ years of experience in eBPF
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Native workloads and/or distributed systems
  • Experience with routing protocols (BGP, OSPF or similar) - implementation and/or hands on.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with Linux systems design, security and/or networking, Linux kernel
  • Experience designing and implementing APIs
  • Experience with Data Center Networking technologies - EVPN/VXLAN, SRv6 or similar
  • A public track record of open-source code commits is a plus

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