Senior Technical Lead – Isovalent Secure Workload Observability

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of engineers in the development of workload security solutions deployed for customers.

• Contribute architectural insights to backend services emphasizing scale, performance, reliability, robustness, and security.

• Gather and manage telemetry data at scale from various data sources within customer environments.

• Respond to environmental changes and enforce policies across a large number of enforcement points.

• Develop low-latency API endpoints capable of handling substantial data volumes.

• Design and maintain services operating in intricate distributed-system settings with unique failure characteristics.

• Work collaboratively with customers, peers, technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers, and support engineers.

• Leverage rapid prototyping and customer feedback to enhance products and deliver features for customers.

• Architect, design, analyze, and brainstorm innovative technical solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in building software systems.

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, including Go, C++, or Java.

• At least 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role within a software engineering context.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of related experience, Master’s degree with 6 years, PhD with 3 years, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Alternatively, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree.

• Strong understanding of algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering, and security architecture.

• Experience in schema/data modeling design.

• Knowledge of large-scale event processing architectures.

• Background in systems programming and performance engineering.

• Familiarity with security architecture and database design.

• Experience with Kubernetes.

• Proficient in programming with cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Capability to serve as a technically adept leader who embraces Agile practices and rapid prototyping.

• Skillful in architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming product solutions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan with a matching contribution from Cisco.

• Paid parental leave.

• Short- and long-term disability coverage.

• Basic life insurance provided.

• Availability of Cisco restricted stock unit grants.

• 10 paid holidays each full calendar year.

• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

• 1 paid day off on the employee’s birthday.

• Paid shutdown during the year-end holiday period.

• 4 paid days off designated for personal wellness.

• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees.

• Flexible vacation time off program with no set limit for eligible exempt employees.

• 80 hours of sick time off granted on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.

• Up to 80 hours of unused sick time can be carried forward.

• Additional paid time off available for critical or emergency family matters.

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year for volunteer work.

• Potential for annual bonuses for non-sales positions.

• Performance-based incentive pay available for sales-plan employees.

• Opportunities for growth, experimentation, and learning.

• Global collaboration and development opportunities.