Software Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco•Milpitas, CA

3d•$183,800 - $303,100

About The Position

The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group owns the development of products that power the world’s largest networks, driving the industry’s transformation to support the growing demands of AI/ML workloads and increasing internet usage. By using open-source technologies and advancing Systems and Silicon Architecture, the team builds large-scale distributed systems, collaborates with open-source communities, and delivers end-to-end product development and production support in a fast-paced environment. As a Networking Engineer, you'll join an agile team engaged in the design, development and testing data-center features set in Cisco 8000 Platform using SONiC network operating system. In this role you’ll have chance to define, develop and learn about many feature sets such as L2/L3 forwarding, ACLs, QoS, Mirroring, etc. Building and delivering data plane and control plane software. Developing ‘forwarding’ and ‘services’ data plane feature sets. Coding in C++ and Python to produce clean, maintainable code.

Requirements

Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
5+ years of programming experience in C/C++
3+ years of experience using Python to build automated test suites for kernel module validation, including experience with frameworks like Pytest
3+ years of experience with Linux

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Linux Kernel
Knowledge of Open Standard Networking Systems and APIs: SONiC, SAI, etc.
Knowledge of Networking protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP, VxLAN, EVPN, ACLs
Experience using debugging tools such as GDB, PDB
Understanding of tools such as GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools

Responsibilities

Building and delivering data plane and control plane software
Developing ‘forwarding’ and ‘services’ data plane feature sets
Coding in C++ and Python to produce clean, maintainable code

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)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
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
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)