# Principal Software Engineer

Meet the Team: The team you will join is the Isovalent at Cisco team where you will work with Linux kernel maintainers and system engineers to deliver and support BPF. This team builds the core components that are the foundation for Cisco products, such as Tetragon, Live Protect and Hypershield. Your Impact As a Principal level engineer to develop the next generation of Linux kernel, BPF, BTF and system level tooling in support of BPF and the Live Protect product family. This position will be responsible for interacting with security and threat research teams (both internal and external), defining the architecture and design for the internal engineering teams, and developing early stage ideas to released products including contributing to the upstream open source Linux communities including the Linux kernel organization. Minimum Qualifications: 12+ years of experience with systems level programming in the Linux kernel, associated systems tooling or compilers. 12+ years of open source experience working on open source projects, examples include Kubernetes, BPF, LLVM, and the Linux kernel. Familiarity with presenting work in technical forums, such as technical conferences, IETF, tec

- **Id**: 4130575
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-principal-software-engineer-7>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Dublin, Ireland, Zurich, Switzerland
- **Countries**: IE, CH
- **Hiring countries**: IE
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T02:21:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2267
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 285
- **Ghost share**: 0.049
- **Stale share**: 0.474
- **Repost share**: 0.091
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Cilium Tetragon** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Ireland** — Iso: IE; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T02:21:45Z

## Visa

- Country: IE; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Irish employment permits in 12 months: 23; Filings 12m: 23

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T04:17:58Z

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