Principal Software Engineer, Load Balancer - Isovalent

Principal Software Engineer, Load Balancer - Isovalent

Cisco Systems

Remote

What you’ll do:

• Define and evolve the architecture of our enterprise-grade load balancer.
• Lead design and development of the load balancer’s data plane, control plane and orchestration tools for scalable traffic management and high availability within Kubernetes.
• Guide the team through technical decisions, design reviews, and performance/security optimizations.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer teams to align technical direction with business needs.
• Contribute to and uphold engineering best practices, code quality, and operational excellence.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Computer Science degree, or related fields.
• 5+ years of experience developing load balancing software, preferably with Go.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Native workloads and/or distributed systems.

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.