Principal Software Engineer - Isovalent

Cisco

Closes in 4 days Remote

Quick summary

Work type: Remote
Location: Milpitas, CA · San Jose, CA · Sunnyvale, CA · Mountain View, CA · San Francisco, CA
Salary: $231,400–$331,800 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Closes: Jun 10, 2026 (soon)

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $282k

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Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer - Isovalent

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As a Principal Engineer on the Backend Services team at Cisco Isovalent, you will lead and mentor a dynamic group of engineers focused on enhancing security for complex customer environments through scalable and robust backend solutions. Your daily responsibilities include advising on technical vision and roadmaps while making critical architectural contributions to systems that collect and process telemetry data, react dynamically to environmental changes, and implement low-latency API endpoints. You must be proficient in languages like Go, C++, or Java, with a minimum of 10 years of software development experience and at least five years in technical leadership roles. Ideal candidates also have expertise in large-scale event processing, performance engineering, Kubernetes, and cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP, ensuring they can tackle unique challenges in distributed system environments.

Skills

Go C++ Java Kubernetes AWS Azure GCP Agile Algorithms Systems Databases Performance Engineering Security Architecture Schema Design Event Processing Architectures System Programming Cloud APIs CI/CD

What you'll do

Provide technical leadership and vision for backend services in workload security products.
Advise on architectural contributions to improve scale, performance, reliability, and security.
Implement API endpoints with minimal latency for large data volumes.
Design solutions to collect and process telemetry at scale from customer environments.
Develop policies that render changes in environment to enforcement points scalably.

What we're looking for

At least 10+ years' experience building software systems in Go, C++, or Java.
At least 5+ years in a technical leadership role in software engineering.
Strong background in Computer Science with expertise in algorithms and performance engineering.
Experience in designing large-scale event processing architectures and schema/data modeling.
Proficiency in agile methodologies and rapid prototyping based on customer feedback.

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