Cisco Principal Engineer 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

651529360

The application window is expected to close on 07/25/2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

Using your strong communication, empathy, and analytical abilities you collaborate effectively by listening, finding common ground, and working as a team to find the best product solutions. You have a high awareness which will guide you in generating trust with the customer. You are very organized enabling you to scale across multiple customer conversations well. You can piece together fragments of information and discover customer requirements that can guide our products to match these requirements.

• Close interaction with customers to gather requirements, explain system design, share timelines, address difficulties, questions, issues, help in adoption.
• Lead technical team to implement features that are aligned to customer expectations now and will address their expectation in the future.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams, including Silicon One architects, software engineers and senior partners to ensure the alignment of Silicon One software initiatives and development work with business objectives.
• Lead the design and architecture of robust software systems, making design choices and deciding coding standards, tools, and platforms.
• Drive the adoption of standard processes in coding, testing, documentation and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding and mentoring a team of Software Engineers, driving technical excellence in SDK/SAI API development.
• Design, develop, and maintain APIs that expose Silicon One capabilities to various teams, ensuring scalability, reliability, and ease of use.

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters degree in science, computer, electrical engineering, or related field; or 14+ years of experience in IT or Software Engineering field.
• Experience in the computer networking field and writing software in C, C++, and Python in a product area (ASIC). Experience debugging networking software.
• Prior work experience in L2 and L3 networking, platform solutions, topologies and interaction with higher networking layers.
• 7+ years of experience leading design and development of software systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience serving in the capacity of Principal Software Engineer or Director.
• Experience in building software stack for ASIC or similar network processors.
• Experience in network processor Interrupts and Error handling in SDK and Traffic Management is a plus.
• Ability to constantly identify, follow and learn innovative technologies, work in a fast-paced, team-focused environment.
• Experience mentoring peers at all levels.
• Experience with SONiC, SAI or another Network OS.
• Experience with cloud, data center, or edge networking products.