Software Engineer Technical Lead – Kubernetes Platform
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026. Cisco Systems scores B on the Alion truth index.
Your Impact
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and deliver core components of a highly scalable platform for Cisco Hypershield. You will focus on extending platform availability across multiple hypervisors, directly removing barriers to customer adoption and increasing market reach. Working with senior technical leadership, you will translate architectural goals into robust, high-performance code, ensuring the platform meets rigorous scalability and security standards while coordinating delivery across engineering and infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities
Partner with application teams and infrastructure providers to understand workload requirements and hypervisor constraints. Use technical feedback, performance metrics, and system signals to validate architectural decisions and ensure desired platform outcomes.
Contribute to the technical roadmap and own the implementation of a defined feature set or workstream for the Hypershield platform. Translate high-level priorities into technical requirements, success metrics (SLIs/SLOs), and execution plans.
Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Data teams to design and build dynamic scalability and a hardened security posture. Clarify technical tradeoffs, manage cross-functional dependencies, track risks, and proactively resolve blockers within the development lifecycle.
Support platform readiness and operational excellence by assisting with technical documentation and resolving complex customer escalations. Monitor platform health, stability, and adoption post-deployment, using telemetry and incident data to recommend architectural improvements.
Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate software development, code analysis, and prototyping. Share engineering best practices and design patterns that strengthen team collaboration and improve overall platform quality.
Minimum Qualifications
- 9+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python.
- Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
- Agile experience
- Bachelor's degree with 11+ years of related experience, Master's with 9+ years, PhD with 4+ years, or equivalent combination of education and experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
- Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
- Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
- Experience working with security architecture and distributed systems
- Kubernetes experience using Kubernetes Cluster API, Gateway APIs Operators
- Experience deploying solutions for cloud architectures for AWS, Azure, or GCP
- A professional who embraces agile methodologies that involve rapid prototyping by feedback gathered from customers, peers and technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers and support engineers.
- A technically skilled leader who enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities
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.