1 month ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, and optimize software solutions across Cisco and open-source Network Operating Systems.
- Triage customer issues and resolve software and networking problems in development, qualification, and production environments.
- Collaborate with Silicon One architecture, SDK, platform software, NOS, customer, and ecosystem teams.
- Integrate and support L2/L3 forwarding, ACL, QoS, traffic management, congestion management, and load-balancing features.
- Perform software debugging, performance analysis, performance tuning, solution validation, deployment planning, and feature adoption support.
- Contribute to automation, validation, testing, diagnostics, and continuous integration frameworks.
- Participate in design reviews and technical planning activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field plus 4+ years of software development experience, or a master’s degree plus 3+ years of software development experience.
- Strong software development expertise in C++ and Python.
- Experience developing software on Linux-based systems.
- Experience developing, integrating, or debugging networking software using SDKs and abstraction layers.
- Experience with Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) or similar networking abstraction frameworks.
- Strong understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking technologies and protocols, QoS, traffic management, congestion management, and load balancing.
- Experience with Network Operating Systems, networking ASICs, switching platforms, or network infrastructure software.
- Hands-on experience with software debugging, performance analysis, and troubleshooting in complex networking environments.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with networking SDKs, Cisco or open-source NOS platforms such as SONiC, data center networking, distributed systems, hyperscale or AI environments, Silicon One, Linux kernel interfaces, device drivers, low-level hardware programming, and Python-based automation or test infrastructure.
- Preferred qualifications also include experience supporting customers, partners, or field engineering organizations and strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
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.