Technical Leader, Performance Engineering - Tetragon

Cisco is a leading technology company that focuses on networking, security, and observability solutions. The Technical Leader for Performance Engineering will guide architectural direction and develop high-quality code for the Tetragon project, enhancing its capabilities for modern cloud-native infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• 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 any of these areas: Linux systems, Kernel-level development or eBPF programming for observability or security use cases, or 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
• Experience in debugging and optimization with a track record of delivering scalable systems
• Knowledge of eBPF for observability or security use cases
• Solid background in Linux systems and kernel-level concepts
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native environments
• Exposure to real-time streaming/aggregation systems and database performance optimization
• Contributions to open-source projects in networking, observability, or distributed systems
• Experience working across diverse, distributed teams