Senior Software Engineer Go - WAF

Senior Software Engineer Go - WAF

Cisco Systems

Remote

Your Impact:

Cisco Isovalent is seeking a skilled and experienced Software Engineer to develop a Go-based control plane within Kubernetes, with a focus on traffic security. You will be responsible for building and enhancing a Kubernetes-native control plane to provide seamless management of our eBPF datapath, enabling a secure traffic management in cloud and hybrid enterprise environments. You will work with a highly collaborative and skilled team to build solutions that advance the next generation of networking and security in Kubernetes environments.

• Design and develop a Go-based control plane managing our enterprise-grade traffic security engine.
• Develop APIs, tools, and custom resources to streamline secure traffic management, scaling, and failover within Kubernetes environments.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve performance, reliability, and security issues in the control and dataplane.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and contribute to technical documentation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Computer Science degree, or related fields.
• 5+ years of experience in Go.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Native workloads and/or distributed systems.
• Experience developing and operating traffic security solutions like WAF, IDS/IPS.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge about Linux systems design, security and/or networking, Linux kernel.
• Desire to write high quality and efficient code.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs.
• A public track record of open-source code commits is a plus.