Senior Technical Lead – Golang, Distributed Systems

Job Description:

• Provide technical leadership and make architectural contributions in backend services
• Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments
• React to changes in environment and render policies in highly scalable manner to large number of enforcement points
• Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data
• Will be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments

Requirements:

• At least 8+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java
• 3+ years' technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
• Agile experience
• Bachelor's degree with 8 years of related experience, Master's with 6 years, PhD with 3 years, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience
• Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
• Schema/Data modeling design experience
• Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
• Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
• Experience working with security architecture and database design
• Kubernetes experience
• Experience programming using cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP
• A professional who embraces agile methodologies

Benefits:

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness
• 16 days of paid vacation time for non-exempt employees
• flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date
• up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• annual bonuses for non-sales roles