Cisco Sr Software Engineer 

United States, California, Milpitas 

149465821

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.

Your Impact

Software Development & Integration:

• 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:

• Contribute to defining 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.

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors of Science
• 7+ YOE 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 C/C++ and Python
• Experience with networking protocols such as BGP, OSPF, VLAN, LACP and others
• Experience with platform infrastructure such as ASIC drivers, BMC, and network OS development
• Experience working with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes and/or similar

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of hardware abstraction layers and SDKs from major networking silicon providers (e.g., Broadcom, Marvell, Mellanox)
• Exposure to SONiC or experience working with the SONiC open-source community
• Understanding of telemetry systems and software-defined networking (SDN)
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
• Familiarity with platform-level security requirements and compliance frameworks
• Experience leading teams or technical projects in a complex development environment