Cisco Software Engineer 

United States, California, Milpitas 

71936510

The application window is expected to close on: February 14th 2025. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

The primary location of this role is San Jose, California and does require two days a week in the office.

Your Impact

You'll be at the forefront of developing and implementing cutting-edge RDMA-enabling protocols and technologies for data center applications. You will diagnose and resolve issues related to RDMA technologies, ensuring the reliability and performance of the system by developing, executing, and extending test plans. Collaboration is key, as you will work closely with multi-functional hardware and software engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of RDMA-enabling technologies.

• Develop, implement, solve, and support RDMA-enabling protocols and technologies for data center applications
• Diagnose and resolve issues related to RDMA technologies
• Participating in code reviews, testing, and debugging processes
• Provide technical support and guidance to other teams and collaborators, integrating RDMA solutions with existing network infrastructure and applications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related STEM area as well as 7+ years experience as a software engineer or a Masters degree and +4 years of software experience within a computer networking or routing environment
• Experience managing Access Control Lists (ACL) as well as ACL based forwarding ( ABF)
• Experience operating in a Linux environment as well as programming experience with C, C++
• Experience with L2 & L3 protocols such as IPv4, IPv6, Tunneling, BGP, MPLS, or classification.
• Experience with Linux system debuggability using tools like gdb.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Data plane experience with NPU, DPU or software data plane
• Docker, GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tool
• Experience with performance tuning
• Strong communication skills with ability to work solo, in a small team or multi-functional teams
• Contributions to open-source networking project
• Experience leading small teams on a turnkey basis

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).