Cisco Data Plane Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

812531101

Who You’ll Work With:

This team builds products by harnessing the potential of open-source technologies while pushing the boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture. They are developers and leaders 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.

Who You Are:

What You’ll Do:

As a Data Plane 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 opportunity to design and develop multiple feature sets including:

• Layer 2 [Vlan, Port Channel, MCLAG]
• Layer 3 [V4, V6]
• QoS [Queuing, Policers, WRED, PFC, ECN]
• ACL [L2, L3, Ingress, Egress, ACL based forwarding]

Basic Qualifications:

• MS/BS degree in CS/EE/CE or technical equivalent.
• 8+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 5+ year’s embedded software development experience using C, C++ and/or Python.
• 3+ years’ data plane experience working with in NPU, DPU or software data plane.
• 3+ years’ experience in data-plane forwarding technologies such as L2, L3, VXLAN, segment Routing and/or MPLS.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Network Operating Systems in the Linux user space.
• GIT, Jira, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Virtualization and container technologies including KVM/Qemu, Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience in data-plane services including ACL and queuing techniques like WRED, Policers, PFC, ECN and/or Alpha.
• Strong performance tuning skills.
• Team Lead experience.

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, it's in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.