Software Engineer

Cisco

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

In this role, you’ll join a dynamic team that develops the full software stack for Silicon One network processors, engaging with the Open Standards community and our esteemed customers to deliver best-in-class routing and switching platforms. You’ll also work closely with architecture, application, and design teams to define the next generation of ASIC products and play a pivotal role in the emerging fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Develops software consistent with Cisco ‘Design Thinking Principles’ with a focus on simplification and UX (User Experience) at its core, using secure coding practices, ensuring user privacy, and following software development best practices. Partners with other teams including design and product management to create the right solution for the customers. Creates technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers. Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes. What You’ll Do: • Experienced professional using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services. • Works independently but receives guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work. • Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. • Develops relationship with peer stakeholders within and across teams and builds productive working relationships. • May lead projects with limited complexity to execute the defined software engineering roadmap. • May lead small-to-medium features from technical design through completion. • Stays current on industry trends and serves as an expert on the software development lifecycle and agile engineering practices; coaches others, as needed. • Contributes to delivery of high-quality design and deliverables. • Advocates for new features within a product to address customer needs. • Tracks metrics for product adoption and success. • Writes functional clean code and unit tests with minimal guidance. • Performs coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the development process under minimal supervision. • Performs code reviews for others in project. • Writes code enabling scale, reliability, and velocity in product releases. • Contributes as an expert in secure coding principles and understands threat model of a feature. • Troubleshoots complex issues within the production environment, may serve customers through on-call rotations to identify end user problems, may lead postmortem and write root cause analysis. • Expert on multiple functional components. • Shares knowledge across teams, both informally and formally (e.g., ad-hoc basis, internal presentations, blogs, newsletters). • Coordinates and collaborates on project timelines and continuously reviews, updates, and communicates project specifications to team members and stakeholders. • Develops remediation plans and alternatives to ensure timely delivery. • Identifies and acts upon opportunities to assist others. • Mentors peers and/or engineering interns.

Requirements

Self-motivated, analytical, and effective at troubleshooting and optimizing embedded software
Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, or a relevant field and 5+ years of relevant work experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience
Experience in C++ programming language
Experience in the full software development life cycle (SDLC): requirement gathering, design, implementation, testing, debugging, and production
Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience, or PhD + 0 years of related experience.
Requires working knowledge and expanded conceptual knowledge in primary technical job family and broadens capabilities; has worked with and is proficient with current technologies.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Open Standard Network Operating Systems and APIs: Silicon SDK development, SONiC, FBOSS, SAI, etc.
Experience with programming models for world-class silicon
Experience writing scripts in Python
Experience in AI/ML applications or infrastructure solution
Experience with L2 / L3 networking technologies strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Design and develop software driving the world's most sophisticated infrastructures, using modern C++ and Python
Gain intimate knowledge of world-class silicon and programming models
Work closely with hardware engineers, architects, and multi-functional teams to define software requirements and ensure seamless integration with hardware components
Conduct unit testing and debugging of embedded software, using various tools and methodologies to identify and resolve issues
Collaborate on the full software development life cycle, from requirement gathering to production deployment
Develops software consistent with Cisco ‘Design Thinking Principles’ with a focus on simplification and UX (User Experience) at its core, using secure coding practices, ensuring user privacy, and following software development best practices.
Partners with other teams including design and product management to create the right solution for the customers.
Creates technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users.
Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers.
Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes.
Experienced professional using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
Works independently but receives guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work.
Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
Develops relationship with peer stakeholders within and across teams and builds productive working relationships.
May lead projects with limited complexity to execute the defined software engineering roadmap.
May lead small-to-medium features from technical design through completion.
Stays current on industry trends and serves as an expert on the software development lifecycle and agile engineering practices; coaches others, as needed.
Contributes to delivery of high-quality design and deliverables.
Advocates for new features within a product to address customer needs.
Tracks metrics for product adoption and success.
Writes functional clean code and unit tests with minimal guidance.
Performs coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the development process under minimal supervision.
Performs code reviews for others in project.
Writes code enabling scale, reliability, and velocity in product releases.
Contributes as an expert in secure coding principles and understands threat model of a feature.
Troubleshoots complex issues within the production environment, may serve customers through on-call rotations to identify end user problems, may lead postmortem and write root cause analysis.
Expert on multiple functional components.
Shares knowledge across teams, both informally and formally (e.g., ad-hoc basis, internal presentations, blogs, newsletters).
Coordinates and collaborates on project timelines and continuously reviews, updates, and communicates project specifications to team members and stakeholders.
Develops remediation plans and alternatives to ensure timely delivery.
Identifies and acts upon opportunities to assist others.
Mentors peers and/or engineering interns.

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (Non-exempt employees)
flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations) (Exempt employees)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies (for non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary (for sales roles)
grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time