Software Engineering Technical Leader
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.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
