Engineering Manager, Scalable Backend Services

Cisco; Zürich; On-site; CHF 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Isovalent invites applications for a Senior Technical Lead to guide a high-velocity engineering team building workload security solutions. The role emphasizes scale, performance, reliability, robustness, and security in distributed environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate across teams to deliver secure, scalable products for customers’ AI infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building software systems in Go, C++, or Java.
• 3+ years of technical leadership in software engineering.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Bachelor's/ Master’s or PhD with related experience, or 10+ years of equivalent work.
• Degree optional if substantial relevant professional experience

Responsibilities

• Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments.
• Render policies and respond at scale to large enforcement points.
• Implement API endpoints with minimal latency when processing large data volumes.

Skills

Go

C++

Java

Technical leadership

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8 years

Master's degree + 6 years

PhD + 3 years

Equivalent experience

10+ years experience without degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud APIs (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Cisco Isovalent invites applications for a Senior Technical Lead to guide a high-velocity engineering team building workload security solutions. The role emphasizes scale, performance, reliability, robustness, and security in distributed environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate across teams to deliver secure, scalable products for customers’ AI infrastructure.