Software Engineering Technical Leader, Backend Services - Isovalent

CiscoAmsterdamRemoteFull-time30 Sept 2026

Isovalent, part of Cisco, is seeking a Software Engineering Technical Leader for Backend Services in Amsterdam. The role involves providing technical leadership and architectural contributions for workload security products, focusing on scale, performance, reliability, and security. Requires 9+ years of software development experience and technical leadership in a software engineering environment.

What you'll do

Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers
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
Deploy in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments

What you need

Must-have

GoC++JavaAgileTechnical LeadershipBackend ServicesDistributed SystemsAPI Development

Nice-to-have

Computer Science FoundationsAlgorithmsSystemsDatabasesSecurity ArchitectureSchema DesignData ModelingEvent Processing

Soft skills

Technical LeadershipCollaborationEmpathyCommunicationProblem SolvingAdaptabilityMentoring

Software EngineeringTechnical LeaderBackend ServicesIsovalentCiscoRemoteFull-timeSecurityDistributed SystemsKubernetes

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