Software Engineering Technical Leader - Isovalent Private Networking
Cisco • Barcelona, Spain • Posted July 01, 2026
About the Role
**About this role:**
Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is seeking a research engineer in EMEA to join our Isovalent Networking for Virtualization engineering team. As a research engineer, you create and lead exploratory initiatives to drive innovation while also working on roadmap items together with the team. You're eager to dive headfirst into complex problems, resourceful in finding novel approaches to overcome them, and capable of clearly communicating your ideas.
**What you'll do:**
+ Identify fruitful directions for exploratory and innovative work
+ Lead medium- to long-term projects to translate innovative ideas into shipped products in collaboration with engineering teams
+ Develop high-quality Go and eBPF code for Cilium open-source and Enterprise edition codebases
+ Collaborate on architecture and design of distributed systems
+ Possibility to speak at public conferences about achievements (if desired)
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is seeking a research engineer in EMEA to join our Isovalent Networking for Virtualization engineering team. As a research engineer, you create and lead exploratory initiatives to drive innovation while also working on roadmap items together with the team. You're eager to dive headfirst into complex problems, resourceful in finding novel approaches to overcome them, and capable of clearly communicating your ideas.
**What you'll do:**
+ Identify fruitful directions for exploratory and innovative work
+ Lead medium- to long-term projects to translate innovative ideas into shipped products in collaboration with engineering teams
+ Develop high-quality Go and eBPF code for Cilium open-source and Enterprise edition codebases
+ Collaborate on architecture and design of distributed systems
+ Possibility to speak at public conferences about achievements (if desired)
**Minimum Qualifications:**