Tetragon Engineering Manager - Isovalent

Isovalent is seeking a talented and experienced Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a team of passionate engineers. The Engineering Manager will play a pivotal role in driving the development of our innovative networking for the Cilium project, security and observability solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in software engineering, excellent leadership skills, a proven track record of delivering high‑quality software products and be very familiar with Linux networking.

We are seeking candidates located either on America’s East Coast or in Europe, to ensure alignment with our team’s working hours and facilitate collaboration across time zones.

• Grow and mentor software engineers and technical leaders
• Deliver continuous feedback and performance review of engineers, with input from technical leads and senior leadership
• Track progress on projects, help engineers grow their project management skills
• Preserve the engineering culture as we scale out the team
• Be a role model of company culture and values

• 3+ years of Engineering Management experience
• 7+ years of experience in systems programming such as C, C++, C#, Go or Rust (Tetragon is primarily written in Go)
• Experience in Linux systems, kernel‑level development, BPF or eBPF programming for observability or security use cases

• Experience integrating with observability platforms (e.g., Splunk) or SaaS security/analytics systems
• Knowledge of eBPF for observability or security use cases
• Solid background in Linux systems and kernel‑level concepts
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud‑native environments
• Familiarity with CVE workflows, vulnerability data pipelines or security event modeling
• Exposure to real‑time streaming/aggregation systems and database performance optimization
• Strong experience in networking protocol analysis or experience developing networking switches (e.g., L2/L3 protocols like ARP, DHCP, SNMP)
• Contributions to open‑source projects in networking, observability or distributed systems
• Experience working across diverse, distributed teams