Cisco

Meet the Team

The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is going through a massive transformation to build the next generation network infrastructure. We are uniquely positioned to capture that market transition.

This team builds platform SDK on Silicon Architecture. They are the developers and leaders who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with both inhouse and open-source technologies. You will be involved with a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development.

Your Impact

Software Development, Tools and Infra development:

• Design and development of common software infrastructure components for network operating systems (NOS), SDK, hardware infrastructure and platform components.
• Develop and maintain tools that would accelerate software development focusing on Build, packaging, installation of SDK.
• Build and maintain Test Infrastructure component, gRPC Server. Collaborate with hardware teams to enable optimal hardware-software interactions and expose hardware capabilities through standardized interfaces.
• 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 develop tools and common infrastructure components.

Collaboration & Engagement:

• Collaborate with product leader and engineering teams to understand use cases, gather requirements, and align deliverables with business objectives.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of new tools, technologies, and methodologies to accelerate development and testing cycles.
• Drive code reviews, technical discussions, and issue resolution to ensure timely and quality deliverables.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development within the networking industry.
• Hands-on experience in tools and Infrastructure development preferably for embedded systems or network operating system (NOS).
• Excellent knowledge on GitHub, build, packaging, installation of SDK components. Deep understanding of how to leverage tools to accelerate software development.
• Prior exposure on building generic test infrastructure integrated with CICD systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on technical projects in a complex development environment
• Knowledge of SDK development with major networking silicon providers (such as Broadcom, Marvell, Mellanox etc)

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