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Cisco

Senior Technical Lead (Golang, Distributed Systems) – Isovalent Secure Workload (remote)

Milpitas, California, US · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$211k-$305kDetected 7 days ago
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About the role

  • The application window is expected to close on: 07/21/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
  • This role can be performed from any location within the United States.
  • We believe in fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where every team member feels valued, respected, and empowered.

Responsibilities

  • Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data.

Requirements

  • 3+ years' technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
  • In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience

Nice to have

  • Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
  • Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
  • Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
  • Kubernetes experience
  • Experience programming using cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • A technically skilled leader who enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities
  • We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.
  • Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

Compensation

  • The starting salary range posted for this position is $210,600.00 to $305,100.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benef

Benefits

  • Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.
  • Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
  • Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
  • Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
  • Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

Company info

  • We are a highly dynamic engineering organization that works on building software for workload security products that cater to highly complex and scalable customer environments to protect their crown jewel application workloads from increasingly complex threat vectors.
  • 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.

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