Cisco Senior Software Engineer Networking 

United States, North Carolina, Cary 

659442562

The application window is expected to close on: 4/11/2025. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a diverse team responsible for delivering innovative outstanding high-quality solutions on our Cisco 8000 platform involving groundbreaking next generation Silicon One ASICS. You will be part of the team developing SDK and/or Control plane for networking protocols.

• Contribute to feature builds with minimal supervision, leveraging technical knowledge and collaborating to solve complex problems.
• Work on embedded software with significant interactions between the software and hardware technologies.
• Bring a level of expertise related to networking protocols with the ability to build quality features for customers.
• You will be creating APIs that communicate between software and hardware layers.
• Working collaboratively and cross-functionally between teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 8 + years of experience in a related field of work or a Master’s Degree with 6 + years of experience in a related field of work.
• Experience working with networking protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, OSPF, FTP, IPv4/IPv6, etc.
• Ability to program in C++ and/or Python. Writing code and testing features.
• Experience building and developing software and/or hardware APIs or working within the SDK networking layer.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with network processor software programming or embedded software programming.
• Experience with or an interest in learning, chip hardware internals, program register, troubleshooting memory issues, resolve soft reboot problems, etc.
• Experience with networking operating systems such as IOS XR or other like NOS.
• Interest in learning Cisco 8000 routing platform and Silicon One Architecture.
• Self-starter with the ability to drive technical solutions/features from conception through implementation.