Cisco Software Engineer SONiC Platform Development 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

863192743

Your Impact

You will be involved with a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.

Software Development & Integration:

• Develop and maintain platform adaptation layers for seamless integration between SONiC and underlying hardware (e.g., ASICs, BMC, and other platform elements).
• Write, review, and optimize code for critical system modules, drivers, and APIs supporting high-performance data planes and control planes.

System Design:

• Work with Technical Leader on 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).

Collaboration & Engagement:

• Collaborate with product management and customers to understand use cases, gather requirements, and align deliverables with business objectives.
• Evaluation and adoption of new tools, technologies, and methodologies to accelerate development and testing cycles.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and issue resolution to ensure timely and quality deliverables.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in software development within the networking or telecommunication industry.
• Software development experience with Linux based platforms or other like network operating systems such as SONiC.
• Experience with platform infrastructure such as ASIC drivers, NPU, BMC, Optics and network OS development.
• Experience working with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes and/or similar.
• Experience working on technical projects in a complex development environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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).