# Technical Lead for Backend Services

**Company**: Cisco (Isovalent)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Lead for backend services to join our team at Cisco (Isovalent). 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 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

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- At least 9+ 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 11+ years of related experience, Master's with 9+ years, PhD with 4+ years, or equivalent combination of education and 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

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- C++
- Java
- Agile
- Technical Leadership

### Nice to have
- algorithms
- systems
- databases
- performance engineering
- security architecture
- schema/data modeling
- large-scale event processing architectures
- systems programming
- Kubernetes
- cloud APIs

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