Cisco

Principal Engineer - Secure Workload Isovalent (Golang)

Cisco$231K — $331K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software systems development using Go, C++, or Java.
  • 5+ years in a technical leadership role within a software engineering team.
  • Masters in Computer Science or related field with 10 years experience, or Bachelor's with 12 years, or PhD with 5 years, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience in Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers focused on backend services.
  • Design and implement scalable solutions for telemetry data processing.
  • Develop low-latency API endpoints to handle large datasets efficiently.
  • Architect solutions for complex distributed systems with unique failure modes.
  • Contribute to the technical vision and roadmap of backend services.

Benefits

  • Collaborative and dynamic engineering environment.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge security products.
  • Emphasis on improving system performance and reliability.
  • Focus on professional growth and technical leadership opportunities.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 06/29/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

We are a highly dynamic engineering organization that works on building software for workload security products that cater to highly complex and scalable customer environments to protect their crown jewel application workloads from increasingly complex threat vectors.

As a Principal Engineer with our Backend Services team, 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, most importantly, Security.

In this role you'll act as a SME, advising on technical vision, roadmaps, 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 10+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java.
  • At least 5+ years in a technical leadership role in a software engineering environment
  • Masters + 10 years related experience, or Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years related experience or equivalent related work experience; degree to be in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
  • Agile 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
  • A technical leader who embraces agile methodologies that involve rapid prototyping by feedback gathered from customers, peers and technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers and support engineers.
  • A software engineering technical leader enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities.

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Net Income
$10.1 billion
Founded
2014
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Revenue
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