1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and evolve forwarding-plane and platform software for SD-WAN and edge routing solutions.
- Collaborate with hardware and ASIC engineering teams on architecture, platform bring-up, low-level drivers, and Network Interface Module integration.
- Design, implement, and maintain ROMMON and bootloader software for secure and reliable system initialization.
- Develop and optimize high-performance forwarding-plane software and Layer 2 networking features.
- Debug performance bottlenecks across kernel, hardware-abstraction, control-plane, firmware, and hardware layers.
- Use AI-assisted coding tools and modern IDEs to improve development efficiency and code quality.
Requirements
- Requires 8–12 years of industry experience in end-to-end networking software development.
- Requires experience with platform and system software, kernel and user-space drivers, bootloaders, BIOS, and control-plane/data-plane performance tuning.
- Requires strong C/C++ systems programming experience in Linux environments.
- Requires experience with device drivers, RTOS or Linux kernels, and hardware-software interfaces.
- Requires understanding of routing architectures and Layer 2 protocols including Ethernet, VLANs, and STP.
- Requires experience with ROMMON, hardware bring-up, board support packages, LAN/WAN interfaces, and Layer 2/Layer 3 technologies.
- Requires experience debugging issues across hardware, firmware, and software layers and using AI/ML development tools such as code assistants, static analysis, or test automation.
- Preferred qualifications include knowledge of PHY, MAC, MACsec, DPDK, cloud networking, I2C trace analysis, PCIe, x86 or ARM assembly, instruction sets, ABIs, and debuggers such as GDB, Arium, or BDI.
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.