Software Engineering Technical Leader - Isovalent Private Networking
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£54,700
(£28.05 per hour)
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Description
About This Role
Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is seeking a research engineer in EMEA to join our Isovalent Networking for Virtualization engineering team. As a research engineer, you create and lead exploratory initiatives to drive innovation while also working on roadmap items together with the team. You're eager to dive headfirst into complex problems, resourceful in finding novel approaches to overcome them, and capable of clearly communicating your ideas.
What You'll Do
Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is seeking a research engineer in EMEA to join our Isovalent Networking for Virtualization engineering team. As a research engineer, you create and lead exploratory initiatives to drive innovation while also working on roadmap items together with the team. You're eager to dive headfirst into complex problems, resourceful in finding novel approaches to overcome them, and capable of clearly communicating your ideas.
What You'll Do
- Identify fruitful directions for exploratory and innovative work
- Lead medium- to long-term projects to translate innovative ideas into shipped products in collaboration with engineering teams
- Develop high-quality Go and eBPF code for Cilium open-source and Enterprise edition codebases
- Collaborate on architecture and design of distributed systems
- Possibility to speak at public conferences about achievements (if desired)
- Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong communication skills and proven ability to work in collaborative environments
- Mastery of any of Go/Rust/C/C++/Zig or other systems programming language
- Ability and desire to write high quality and efficient code
- Experience in research-oriented environments
- Experience in Linux systems design and networking
- Experience in design and implementation of distributed systems
- PhD in Computer Science, or equivalent experience as a research engineer
- Experience with Go and/or eBPF
- Experience with Kubernetes and writing code to interact with Kubernetes
- Experience with Cilium Kubernetes CNI
- Experience in technical leadership roles
- Experience in public speaking at technical conferences
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.