Technical Leader, Performance Engineering - Tetragon

Cisco

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Remote · San Jose, CA Posted 24 days ago $210,600–$305,100 / year
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TL;DR

As a Technical Leader on the Tetragon team at Cisco Isovalent, you will drive architectural direction and contribute to building high-quality Go and eBPF code for the open-source observability and security tool, Tetragon. Your daily tasks include analyzing performance overheads, designing optimizations to reduce CPU usage and memory footprint, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align requirements and deliver production-ready solutions. You will also participate in community discussions, architecture reviews, and documentation efforts while ensuring Tetragon scales effectively across various platforms. This role requires extensive experience in systems programming, Linux kernel-level development, eBPF programming, performance optimization, and a solid background in Kubernetes and cloud-native environments. Your work will significantly impact the modern runtime security landscape by enhancing Tetragon’s capabilities to meet diverse use-cases and stringent requirements.

Skills

Go eBPF Linux Kubernetes C Performance Analysis Memory Optimization Debugging Scalability Contributions to Open-Source Projects Real-time Streaming Database Performance Optimization CI/CD

What you'll do

  • Develop high-quality Go and eBPF code for the Tetragon project.
  • Analyze and optimize Tetragon’s performance and overheads.
  • Design novel methods to minimize CPU overhead and memory footprint in Tetragon.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to align requirements and deliver production-ready solutions.
  • Contribute to open-source projects and participate in community discussions.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in systems programming with C, Go, or similar languages.
  • Experience in Linux systems, kernel-level development, and eBPF programming for observability or security use cases.
  • Strong background in performance analysis and optimization of eBPF and Go programs.
  • Track record in debugging and optimizing scalable systems with significant improvements.
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native environments, including real-time streaming/aggregation systems.
  • Contributions to open-source projects in networking, observability, or distributed systems.

Market check

Salary context

This $210,600–$305,100 range sits above 82% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$156,160–$241,200

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$159,099–$243,725

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Cisco

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

Cisco currently has 103 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $165,000–$241,400 across 103 roles with salary data.

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