Staff Software Engineer - Go/eBPF & Distributed Systems Lead

Cisco Systems, Inc; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Isovalent Networking for Virtualization team. You will implement features, root-cause and fix bugs, and maintain code in Go and eBPF while contributing to the Cilium OSS and Enterprise editions.

You will collaborate on the architecture and design of distributed systems, integrate with traditional datacenter networking protocols, and uphold engineering best practices to deliver reliable software at scale in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and ability to work in collaborative environments.
• Experience with Go, Rust, C, C++, or Zig (systems programming).
• Experience in professional software engineering and writing high quality, efficient code.
• Familiarity with Linux, networking and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Work on delivering the roadmap together with the team.
• Develop and review high-quality Go and eBPF code for Cilium open-source and Enterprise edition codebases.
• Collaborate on architecture and design of distributed systems such as working on cluster mesh.
• Integrate with traditional datacenter networking protocols.
• Contribute to and uphold engineering best practices, code quality, and operational excellence.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaborative work

Distributed systems knowledge

Linux familiarity

Networking basics

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Go

C

C++

Rust

eBPF

Kubernetes

Cilium

Open-source tooling

Job description

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Isovalent Networking for Virtualization team. You will implement features, root-cause and fix bugs, and maintain code in Go and eBPF while contributing to the Cilium OSS and Enterprise editions.

You will collaborate on the architecture and design of distributed systems, integrate with traditional datacenter networking protocols, and uphold engineering best practices to deliver reliable software at scale in a fast-paced