# Software Engineering Technical Leader

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Isovalent Networking for Virtualization engineering team. As a software engineer, you are tasked with implementing features, root-causing and fixing bugs and performing maintenance tasks on our codebase, together with the team. You are eager to dive headfirst into complex problems, resourceful in finding novel approaches to overcome them, and capable of clearly communicating your ideas. What You’ll Do: Work on delivering the roadmap together with the team Develop and review high-quality Go and eBPF code for Cilium open-source and Enterprise edition codebases Collaborate on architecture and design of distributed systems such as working on cluster mesh Integrate with traditional datacenter networking protocols Contribute to and uphold engineering best practices, code quality, and operational excellence Minimum Qualifications: Strong communication skills and proven ability to work in collaborative environments Experience with any of Go/Rust/C/C++/Zig or other systems programming language Experience in professional software engineering and the ability and desire to write high quality and efficient code Familiarity

- **Id**: 3923529
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-software-engineering-technical-leader-38>
- **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**: Zurich, Switzerland, Brussels, Belgium, Barcelona, Spain, Bratislava, Slovakia, London, United Kingdom, Prague, Czech Republic, Athens, Greece, Stockholm, Sweden, Berlin, Germany, Bucharest, Romania, Oslo, Norway, Budapest, Hungary, Rome, Italy, Dublin, Ireland, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Paris, France, Poland, Portugal
- **Countries**: CH, BE, ES, SK, GB, CZ, GR, SE, DE, RO, NO, HU, IT, IE, NL, FR, PL, PT
- **Hiring countries**: CH
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T00:12:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2512
- **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**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 264
- **Ghost share**: 0.045
- **Stale share**: 0.451
- **Repost share**: 0.087
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Cilium** — Optional: no
- **eBPF** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Zig** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Switzerland** — Iso: CH; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T17:07:17Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 40
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.542
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:5, evergreen, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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