Senior Data Engineer, Observability — Isovalent (now part of Cisco)
Location: Mountain View, Zurich, or Remote
Org: Product and Engineering

About Isovalent:
Isovalent, founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, builds open-source software and
enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern
cloud native infrastructure. Cilium is the choice of leading global organizations,
including Adobe, AWS, Capital One, Datadog, GitLab, Google, and many more. Isovalent is
now part of Cisco.

The role / team:
The team builds the observability capabilities of Cilium, Isovalent Load Balancer, and
Tetragon — including data pipelines, storage, and analysis. You will build software to
analyze customer environments to assess their security posture and implement
recommendations. The platform collects observability data from Cilium using eBPF.

Requirements:
- M.Sc. in computer science or equivalent experience.
- Experience working with remote teams and collaborating effectively in cross-functional teams.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Native workloads, and distributed systems.
- Desire to write beautiful and highly efficient code in Go.
- Experience designing and/or implementing robust APIs (e.g. using gRPC).
- Strong knowledge of SQL and database query optimization for large datasets.
- Experience working with large, distributed, columnar databases for analytics workloads.
- Knowledge of ClickHouse is a plus.

Source: https://isovalent.com/careers/senior-data-engineer-observability-mountain-view-zurich-or-remote
(JD reconstructed 2026-06-02 from official posting via search; page is JS-gated. Verify exact
wording against the live posting before final submission.)
