# Principal Software Engineer, Load Balancer - Isovalent Remote Europe

**Company**: Cisco Isovalent
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cisco Isovalent, part of Cisco, seeks a skilled Principal Software Engineer to develop its next-generation Load Balancer using Cilium technology. You will drive the development of a standalone eBPF load balancer for scalable, secure, and resilient traffic management in cloud and hybrid enterprise environments.

Responsibilities:

- Define and evolve the architecture of the enterprise-grade load balancer

- Lead design and development of the load balancer's data plane, control plane, and orchestration tools

- Guide the team through technical decisions, design reviews, and performance/security optimizations

- Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer teams to align technical direction with business needs

- Contribute to and uphold engineering best practices, code quality, and operational excellence

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields

- 5+ years of experience developing load balancing software, preferably with Go

- Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Native workloads, and/or distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications:

- Knowledge of Linux systems design, security, and/or networking, Linux kernel

- Desire to write high-quality and efficient code

- Experience designing and implementing APIs

- A public track record of open-source code commits is a plus

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Native
- distributed systems
- Linux

### Nice to have
- Linux kernel
- API design
- open-source development

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