Cisco Software Engineer Technical Leader 

United States, California, Milpitas 

811664085

You will be working among engineers who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large-scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies. You will be part of a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.

Software Development & Integration:

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of software solutions leveraging SONiC to interface with hardware infrastructure and platform-level components.
• Develop and maintain platform adaptation layers for seamless integration between SONiC and underlying hardware (e.g., ASICs, BMC, and other platform elements).
• Collaborate with hardware teams to enable optimal hardware-software interactions and expose hardware capabilities through SONiC interfaces.
• Write, review, and optimize code for critical system modules, drivers, and APIs supporting high-performance data planes and control planes.
• System Architecture and Design:
• Define the technical architecture to integrate SONiC with platform infrastructure, ensuring scalability and high availability.
• Design robust interfaces between SONiC and platform-specific management/control modules (e.g., telemetry, diagnostics, and security components).
• Lead efforts to optimize resource utilization, power efficiency, and operational stability of the network platform.
• Leadership and Mentorship:
• Provide technical direction to the development team, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers on software engineering best practices and advanced networking concepts.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities between software, hardware, QA, and systems integration teams.
• Drive code reviews, technical discussions, and issue resolution to ensure timely and quality deliverables.
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:
• Act as a key liaison with open-source SONiC communities, contributing to upstream development and leveraging community innovations.
• Collaborate with product management and customers to understand use cases, gather requirements, and align deliverables with business objectives.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of new tools, technologies, and methodologies to accelerate development and testing cycles.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 10+ years of experience in software development within the networking or telecommunication industry
• Experience in C, C++, Python, bash scripting, Linux based platforms or other like network operating systems such as SONiC
• Experience with platform infrastructure such as ASIC drivers, BMC, and network OS development
• Experience with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes and/or similar
• Experience leading teams or technical projects in a software development environment

• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
• Experience with platform level security requirements and compliance frameworks
• Understanding of telemetry systems and software-defined networking (SDN)
• Exposure to SONiC or experience working with the SONiC open-source community
• Knowledge of hardware abstraction layers and SDKs from major networking silicon providers (such as Broadcom, Marvell, Mellanox etc)
• Experience with Optics/Serdes/ANLT technologies