Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

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.

## Meet the Team

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.

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## Your Impact

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.

You will develop and improve software agents that collect rich workload information, including network traffic and system activity such as processes, users, and file access. You will help build capabilities that enforce network policies from a central controller and monitor and protect container-based deployments.

You will apply your knowledge of computer science, operating systems, systems programming, and networking to analyze complex interactions between applications, processes, and operating system kernels. You will work in an agile development environment, rapidly protot...