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About the role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the software agent team, you will be closely involved throughout the product development lifecycle, from analyzing and designing new capabilities through implementation, troubleshooting, and deployment into production environments.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of software development experience, or a Master's degree with 4+ years of software development experience
- Experience with systems programming using C or C++, including multi-threaded and multi-process application development
- Experience operating system fundamentals, including threads, processes, file systems, networking, and inter-process communication
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex software systems
More about this role
The application window is expected to close on: 11/29/2026
This is a remote position open to candidates located within the United States.
Candidates located in the Bay area are requested to work onsite a few days a week.
Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF. Cisco Isovalent is building the next generation of products for securing workloads and AI infrastructure using advanced technologies across Linux and Windows.
Our software agent team builds high-performance, secure, and lightweight software agents that run across Linux, Unix, and Windows environments and multiple architectures, including aarch64, x86_64, s390x, and ppc64_le. These agents operate across traditional and modern workloads in on-premises and cloud environments.
You will work closely with software engineers and cross-functional teams that include data engineers, data scientists, and UX/UI engineers. The software you develop helps provide visibility, security, and management across data center, enterprise, container, and cloud environments at significant scale.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the software agent team, you will be closely involved throughout the...
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