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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026

Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Cisco Isovalent San Jose, California Remote senior full-time

Salary

$167,700 to $245,200 per year

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Description

This is a remote position open to candidates located within the United States.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the software agent team, you will be closely involved throughout the product development lifecycle, from analyzing and designing new capabilities through implementation, troubleshooting, and deployment into production environments.

You will develop and improve software agents that collect rich workload information, including network traffic and system activity such as processes, users, and file access.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, test, and improve high-performance software agents.
  • Develop software that operates across Linux, Unix, and Windows environments and multiple processor architectures.
  • Develop and enhance functionality for enforcing network policies on workloads from a central controller.
  • Build capabilities that monitor and protect container-based deployments.
  • Analyze complex software systems involving interactions between multiple processes and operating system kernels.
  • Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, data scientists, UX/UI engineers, technical support engineers, and other cross-functional partners.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of software development experience, or a Master's degree with 4+ years of software development experience
  • Experience with systems programming using C or C++, including multi-threaded and multi-process application development.
  • Experience operating system fundamentals, including threads, processes, file systems, networking, and inter-process communication.
  • Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex software systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with Windows systems programming.
  • Experience with networking technologies and concepts.
  • Experience with host-based firewalls.
  • Experience with crash dump analysis.
  • Experience programming in Golang.
  • Experience developing software that interacts with operating system kernels or other low-level system components.
  • Experience developing software for containerized, cloud, or distributed computing environments.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Windows systems programming
  • networking technologies
  • host-based firewalls
  • crash dump analysis
  • Golang
  • containerized computing

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