Senior Software Engineer Network Development (L2/L3 Forwarding) @ Cisco

As a key member of our team, you will collaborate with a group of highly experienced engineers to architect, design, and develop some of the worlds most widely deployed routers and switches. These systems are foundational to service provider and data center networks, enabling them to evolve and support innovative and emerging business models.

You'll have the opportunity to work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industrywhere the work is both intellectually rewarding and genuinely enjoyable.

Looking forward to getting an exciting start to your career? You will bring your unique talents to the group that works on Cisco's Switching technology, which large enterprises now consider to be the Networking Equipment of choice for mission-critical networks. In your role as a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and integrate products that are deployed by some of the leading Enterprises in the world.

You will work with a BU-wide vibrant technical community, learning from experts and translating this learning into exciting opportunities for personal growth. You will work on networking equipment that forms a crucial backbone of many offices, hospitals, educational and financial institutions. You will learn about cutting-edge technologies and platforms while developing software for these equipment. Experience the exhilaration of taking a product through development and integration.

Minimum Qualifications :

• Around 9 years of experience in software development within the networking industry.
• Good experience in developing software in C, especially in the context of network protocols and systems.
• Experience in data-plane forwarding technologies such as L2, L3, segment Routing and/or MPLS.
• Experience working on data path programming on custom or merchant ASIC of any networking system.
• Ability to debug complex issues in router pipeline.
• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field.

• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and ability to automate as we develop.
• Knowledge of hardware abstraction layers and SDKs from major networking silicon providers (such as Broadcom, Marvell, Mellanox etc.)
• Ability to debug complex issues in NPU pipeline.
• Experience in any Cisco OS XR, XE or NXOS would be a plus.