Key skills
CloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesLinuxGoCPerformance Optimization
About this role
Role Overview
- Develop high-quality Go (and eBPF) code for the Tetragon project
- Understand and analyze Tetragon’s performance and overheads
- Design and implement novel ways to minimize Tetragon’s CPU overhead and memory footprint
- Partner across teams to align requirements, define integration points, and deliver production-ready solutions
- Contribute to open-source projects and represent Cisco Isovalent in community discussions
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and documentation
Requirements
- Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience
- 8 + years of experience in systems programming (C, Go, or similar; Tetragon is primarily written in Go)
- Experience in Linux systems, Kernel-level development or eBPF programming for observability or security use cases
- Experience in building scalable Go systems
- Experience in performance analysis and optimization
- Experience in analyzing and improving the performance and memory consumption of eBPF and Go programs (preferred)
- Experience in debugging and optimization with a track record of delivering scalable systems (preferred)
- Knowledge of eBPF for observability or security use cases (preferred)
- Solid background in Linux systems and kernel-level concepts (preferred)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native environments (preferred)
- Exposure to real-time streaming/aggregation systems and database performance optimization (preferred)
- Contributions to open-source projects in networking, observability, or distributed systems (preferred)
- Experience working across diverse, distributed teams (preferred)
Tech Stack
- Cloud
- Distributed Systems
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Go
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
- flexible vacation time for exempt employees
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter