Technical Leader, Performance

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About the role

  • Technical Leader advancing Tetragon’s capabilities in observability and security for Cisco Isovalent. Collaborating with teams to optimize Tetragon for modern runtime security landscape.

Responsibilities

  • Develop high-quality Go (and eBPF) code for the Tetragon project
  • Understand and analyze Tetragon’s performance and overheads
  • Design and implement novel ways to minimize Tetragon’s CPU overhead and memory footprint
  • Partner across teams to align requirements, define integration points, and deliver production-ready solutions
  • Contribute to open-source projects and represent Cisco Isovalent in community discussions
  • Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and documentation

Requirements

  • Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience
  • 8 + years of experience in systems programming (C, Go, or similar; Tetragon is primarily written in Go)
  • Experience in Linux systems, Kernel-level development or eBPF programming for observability or security use cases
  • Experience in building scalable Go systems
  • Experience in performance analysis and optimization

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
  • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
  • Paid year-end holiday shutdown
  • 4 paid days off for personal wellness
  • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
  • Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
  • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$159,000 - $230,300 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

LinuxGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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