Cisco Software Engineer Sonic 

United States, California, Milpitas 

697772633

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.

Software Development & Integration:

• Lead the 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.

• Define 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.

• Collaborate with product management and customers to understand use cases, gather requirements, and align work with business objectives.
• Evaluation and adoption of new tools, technologies, and methodologies to accelerate development and testing cycles.

• Bachelors in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 3+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in software development within the networking or telecommunication industry
• Experience in C, C++, Python, bash scripting, Linux based platforms or other like network operating systems such as SONiC
• Experience working with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes and/or similar

• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
• 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)
• Experience with platform infrastructure such as ASIC drivers, BMC, and network OS development