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# Senior Technical Lead - Isovalent Secure Workload Observability (remote)

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $210,600.0 - $305,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Cyber Security, Computer Programming, Databases, Database Design, Distributed Systems, Integrated Development Environments, Rapid Prototyping Process, Software Construction, System Programming, ReactJS, Backend, Kubernetes, Complex Event Processing, Web Api, Programming Languages
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/87745908/1

## About the Role

* At least 8+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java.
 * 3+ years' technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
 * Agile experience
 * Bachelor's degree with 8 years of related experience, Master's with 6 years, PhD with 3 years, or equivalent combination of education and experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience, * Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
 * Schema/Data modeling design experience
 * Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
 * Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
 * Experience working with security architecture and database design
 * Kubernetes experience
 * Experience programming using cloud APIs 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

## Description

As a Senior Technical Lead, you will work with and provide technical leadership to a team of highly motivated engineers working on solutions to ship or deploy for our customers, with a focus on improving Scale, Performance, Reliability, Robustness, and, most importantly, Security.

In this role you'll provide technical leadership and make architectural contributions in backend services that:

 * Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments
 * React to changes in environment and render policies in highly scalable manner to large number of enforcement points
 * Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data.
 * Will be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments.


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