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Technical Lead for Backend Services

Cisco (Isovalent) senior full-time

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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

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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