Principal Software Engineer, Load Balancer - Isovalent

In this role you will lead the architecture and development of Cisco Isovalent's next-generation load balancer built on eBPF. You will drive the data plane, control plane, and orchestration tooling to enable scalable, secure, and highly available traffic management in Kubernetes environments. You will mentor the team, perform design reviews, and optimize performance and security. You will collaborate across engineering, product, and customer teams to align technical direction with business goals. This role offers a unique chance to shape cloud-native networking at scale within a leading open-source-driven company.

- Define and evolve the architecture of the enterprise-grade load balancer
- Lead design and development of the load balancer's data plane, control plane and orchestration tools for scalable traffic management and high availability within Kubernetes




- Guide the team through technical decisions, design reviews, and performance/security optimizations
- Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer teams to align technical direction with business needs
- Contribute to and uphold engineering best practices, code quality, and operational excellence
- Bachelor in Computer Science
- 5+ years of experience developing load balancing software
- experience with Go
- Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Native workloads and/or distributed systems
- Preferred: knowledge about Linux systems design, security and/or networking, Linux kernel
- Desire to write high quality and efficient code
- Experience designing and implementing APIs
- Public open-source code commits are a plus

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📌 Principal Software Engineer, Load Balancer - Isovalent (Roma)
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