Software Engineering Technical Leader -- Secure Workload Agent

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Miami, FL, United States
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

IBM AIX Unix Compilers Code Review Computer Programming Linux Device Drivers IBM System Z Software Engineering Solaris (Operating System) Cisco

Job description

Experteer Overview As a Software Engineering Technical Leader, you design, develop, and optimize the Secure Workload Unified Agent across OSes and architectures. You will work on low-level systems software, kernel interactions, and platform enablement to deliver high performance, reliability, and security for enterprise environments. You mentor engineers and drive complex projects while collaborating with teams across Secure Workload, Isovalent, and Tetragon. This role places you at the heart of runtime security for modern infrastructure, with impact on world-scale customers. You will help extend the agent to new platforms and shape the roadmap for platform support. Compensation / Benefits * Design, develop, and optimize low-level software components for the Unified Agent using C with kernel-level focus * Maintain and expand support for Linux, IBM AIX, IBM Power, IBM System z, Solaris, and other enterprise platforms * Diagnose complex software issues via crash/core dumps and OS internals to improve reliability and performance * Collaborate with engineers across Secure Workload, Tetragon, and Isovalent to deliver runtime security features and platform enhancements * Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, design discussions, and code reviews to uphold engineering excellence Tasks * 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree (or 8+ with a Master’s, or 5+ with a PhD) * Experience developing software in C for Linux or UNIX-based OS * Experience with OS internals, kernel programming, or kernel driver development * Experience with compilers, cross-platform compilation, and crash/core dump analysis * Experience developing software for enterprise OSs or multiple processor architectures Key requirements * medical, dental, and vision insurance * 401(k) with Cisco match * paid parental leave * short and long-term disability coverage * basic life insurance * paid time away and holidays

Requirements

  • to improve reliability and performance * Collaborate with engineers across Secure Workload, Tetragon, and Isovalent to deliver runtime security features and platform enhancements * Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, design discussions, and code reviews to uphold engineering excellence Tasks * 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree (or 8+ with a Master’s, or 5+ with a PhD) * Experience developing software in C for Linux or UNIX-based OS * Experience with OS internals, kernel programming, or kernel driver development * Experience with compilers, cross-platform compilation, and crash/core dump analysis * Experience developing software for enterprise OSs or multiple processor architectures Key requirements * medical, dental, and vision insurance * 401(k) with Cisco match * paid parental leave * short and long-term disability coverage * basic life insurance * paid time away and holidays

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