Software Engineer Technical Lead – Kubernetes Platform

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and deliver core components of a highly scalable platform for Cisco Hypershield.

About Cisco

• A technically skilled leader who enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities Why Cisco?
• At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond.
• We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.
• These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
• Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions.
• Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless.
• We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.
• Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
• We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Responsibilities

• You will focus on extending platform availability across multiple hypervisors, directly removing barriers to customer adoption and increasing market reach.
• Working with senior technical leadership, you will translate architectural goals into robust, high-performance code, ensuring the platform meets rigorous scalability and security standards while coordinating delivery across engineering and infrastructure teams.
• Partner with application teams and infrastructure providers to understand workload requirements and hypervisor constraints.
• Use technical feedback, performance metrics, and system signals to validate architectural decisions and ensure desired platform outcomes.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and own the implementation of a defined feature set or workstream for the Hypershield platform.
• Translate high-level priorities into technical requirements, success metrics (SLIs/SLOs), and execution plans.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Data teams to design and build dynamic scalability and a hardened security posture.
• Clarify technical tradeoffs, manage cross-functional dependencies, track risks, and proactively resolve blockers within the development lifecycle.
• Support platform readiness and operational excellence by assisting with technical documentation and resolving complex customer escalations.
• Monitor platform health, stability, and adoption post-deployment, using telemetry and incident data to recommend architectural improvements.
• Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate software development, code analysis, and prototyping.
• Share engineering best practices and design patterns that strengthen team collaboration and improve overall platform quality.

Requirements

• Qualifications 9+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python.
• Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment Agile experience Bachelor's degree with 11+ years of related experience, Master's with 9+ years, PhD with 4+ years, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience

Preferred

• Qualifications Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
• Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
• Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
• Experience working with security architecture and distributed systems
• Kubernetes experience using
• Kubernetes Cluster API, Gateway APIs Operators Experience deploying solutions for cloud architectures for AWS, Azure, or GCP A professional who embraces agile methodologies that involve rapid prototyping by feedback gathered from customers, peers and technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers and support engineers.