Senior Software Engineer - Developer

Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience – Isovalent

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF. Cisco Isovalent builds open‑source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud native infrastructure. The flagship technology, Cilium, is the choice of numerous, industry‑leading, global organizations.

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Cisco Isovalent is seeking an accomplished Senior Software Engineer with expertise in architecture and delivery, CI, operations and most importantly AI assistance. We invite you to apply and contribute to our mission of advancing networking and security within Kubernetes environments.

• Architect and develop AI assisted tooling to support and improve developer experience
• Collaborate in code reviews, architectural discussions, customer support escalations, and contribute to comprehensive technical documentation.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline operations

• Bachelor's Computer Science degree, or related fields
• 6+ years of relevant experience
• Proven experience in architecture and delivery, or senior consulting
• Expertise in operations, including onboarding applications onto the Cloud and implementing CI/CD
• Experience coding with any high‑level programming language

• Desire to write high quality code (automation and Kubernetes operators). Go is preferred.
• Previous contributions to open source projects.

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