Senior Software Architect & Technical Leader

Kubernetes Platform Architecture & Distributed Systems

What You’ll Do

Join a platform engineering team at Cisco and provide hands-on technical leadership in evolving a Kubernetes-based platform for enterprise network applications, shaping how applications integrate with and operate across cloud, hybrid, edge, and customer-managed environments.

• Define platform architecture, technical strategy, and multi-release roadmaps; translate product and operational needs into clear designs and implementation plans.
• Design and evolve Kubernetes capabilities, including cluster lifecycle, controllers and reconciliation, custom resources, scheduling, networking, storage, service discovery, and upgrades.
• Lead the design and development of shared platform services for connectivity, identity and access management, distributed data, observability, lifecycle automation, and administration.
• Improve reliability and security through high-availability design, recovery, backup and restore, capacity planning, production debugging, threat modeling, and vulnerability remediation.
• Prepare the platform for future AI workloads through workload isolation, resource governance, secure model serving, telemetry, and accelerator support.
• Raise engineering standards through hands-on development, design and code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, incident analysis, mentoring, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Who You’ll Work With

You will join a globally distributed engineering team in Israel, the United States, and Europe. As a key platform engineering presence in Israel, you will collaborate with engineering, product, architecture, security, quality, support, and customer-facing teams. Occasional schedule flexibility is required for collaboration with U.S. colleagues.

Minimum Qualifications

• A related bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years building, operating, or extending production Kubernetes platforms.
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge and strong Go and/or Java development experience.
• Proven technical leadership of complex, cross-team initiatives from architecture through production.
• Strong engineering expertise across distributed systems, Linux, containers, networking, security, CI/CD, and production troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and agentic engineering workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes operators, controllers, and custom platform APIs.
• Distributed databases, messaging, consensus, or dynamic-routing technologies.
• Identity and service security in restricted-connectivity or air-gapped environments.
• Supporting data-intensive or AI-related workloads on Kubernetes.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.