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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