Staff Software Engineer, Networking & eBPF

Cisco; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, seeks a Software Engineer to join our Isovalent Networking for Virtualization team. You will implement features, fix bugs, and maintain code alongside a collaborative team, tackling complex problems.

You will develop Go and eBPF for Cilium, influence distributed system design, and align with datacenter networking protocols while upholding engineering quality and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and proven ability to work in collaborative environments.
• Experience with Go/Rust/C/C++/Zig or other systems programming language.
• Experience in professional software engineering and the ability to write high quality and efficient code.
• Familiarity with Linux, networking and distributed systems in general.

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

Go/Rust/C/C++/Zig

Linux

Distributed systems

Communication & collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

eBPF

CNIs

Job description

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, seeks a Software Engineer to join our Isovalent Networking for Virtualization team. You will implement features, fix bugs, and maintain code alongside a collaborative team, tackling complex problems.

You will develop Go and eBPF for Cilium, influence distributed system design, and align with datacenter networking protocols while upholding engineering quality and operational excellence.