20 hours ago
Base Salary
$214k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver software for L2/L3 forwarding in Cisco Nexus 9000 data-center switches.
- Lead technical design and implementation of major features from conception through completion.
- Debug and resolve software issues during development and in production systems.
- Define technical vision, engineering priorities, design standards, and software development strategies across teams.
- Drive issue identification, proactive tooling, sustainable production response, and continuous improvement.
- Lead, mentor, and influence senior engineers while improving knowledge-sharing processes.
- Partner with design, product management, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders to align technical priorities and product direction.
- Create technical and user documentation and communicate product priorities, trade-offs, and requirements.
- Represent team outputs at external events when appropriate.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 12 years of related experience, or master’s degree plus 8 years, or PhD plus 5 years.
- At least 5 years of experience in the networking domain.
- Proficiency in C/C++ programming in a Linux environment.
- Experience with L2/L3 forwarding concepts and familiarity with datapath architecture within ASICs.
- Proven experience developing features for network switches and routers.
- Preferred: experience with VXLAN or other overlay technologies.
- Preferred: experience designing and maintaining scalable infrastructure automation using Python.
- Preferred: comfort using AI tools such as CoPilot and Cursor.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Starting salary range of $214,100.00 to $309,800.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) with company matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid time off includes holidays, floating and wellness days, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
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.