3 days ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Deliver the engineering roadmap collaboratively with the team.
- Develop and review high-quality Go and eBPF code for Cilium open-source and Enterprise codebases.
- Collaborate on distributed-systems architecture and design, including cluster mesh.
- Integrate software with traditional datacenter networking protocols.
- Contribute to engineering best practices, code quality, and operational excellence.
- Root-cause and fix bugs and perform maintenance on the codebase.
Requirements
- Demonstrated professional software engineering experience and the ability and desire to write high-quality, efficient code.
- Experience with Go, Rust, C, C++, Zig, or another systems programming language.
- Familiarity with Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively.
- A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with Go and/or eBPF.
- Preferred: experience in cloud-native datacenter networking.
- Preferred: experience managing production Kubernetes clusters, SRE principles, and infrastructure automation tools.
- Preferred: experience writing code that interacts with Kubernetes.
- Preferred: experience with Cilium and/or other CNIs.
- Preferred: relevant open-source contributions.
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.