Cisco Principal Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

367633684

Using your strong communication, empathy, and analytical abilities you collaborate effectively by listening, finding common ground, and working as a team to find the best product solutions. You have a high awareness which will guide you in generating trust with the customer. You are very organized enabling you to scale across multiple customer conversations well. You are able to piece together fragments of information and discover customer requirements that can guide our products to match these requirements.

• Close interaction with customers to gather requirements, explain system design, share timelines, address difficulties, questions, issues, help in adoption.
• Lead technical team to implement features that are aligned to customer expectations now and will address their expectation in the future.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams, including Silicon One architects, software engineers and senior partners to ensure the alignment of Silicon One software initiatives and development work with business objectives.
• Lead the design and architecture of robust software systems, making design choices and dictating coding standards, tools, and platforms.
• Drive the adoption of standard processes in coding, testing, documentation and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding and mentoring a team of Software Engineers, driving technical excellence in SDK/SAI API development.
• Design, develop, and maintain APIs that expose Silicon One capabilities to various teams, ensuring scalability, reliability, and ease of use.
• Implement robust monitoring and logging solutions to track the performance and health of deployed silicon one software, enabling issue resolution.
• Ensure that silicon one software and APIs meet security and compliance standards, collaborating closely with security teams to implement necessarymeasures.

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering or related field or 14+ years of experience in IT, Software Engineering field.
• Experience in the computer networking field and writing software in C++, Python in a product area (ASIC)
• Experience with P4 programmability
• 7+ years of experience leading the design and development of software systems.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to address complex issues.
• Experience serving in the capacity of Principal Engineer.
• Experience in building software stack for ASIC or similar network processors.
• Ability to constantly identify, follow and learn innovative technologies, work in a fast-paced, team-focused environment.
• Experience mentoring peers at all levels
• Experience with SONiC, SAI or another Network OS.
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards.
• Experience with cloud, data center, or edge networking products

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).