Software Engineer, Enterprise Switching

The Enterprise Networking Business Cisco's largest business group by revenue, profit, and contribution margin. Enterprise edge products that integrate industry-leading routing, application services, security, and voice/video features with new technologies such as virtualization, 4G mobile data, cloud-based IT applications, DNA, Switching, Routing and WAN. Customers range from small businesses to the world's largest retailers, financial institutions, and IT service providers. Our customers likely include your bank, apparel retailer, grocery store, superstore, and maybe even your favorite coffee shop. Driving innovation and increased customer value has enabled Cisco Enterprise Routing to maintain market share leadership within the industry.

You will join a project team of engineers involved in the development of software for our next generation Network operating systems. This team defines, architects, designs, and delivers new software and features for the Enterprise platforms.

Day to day activities will involve:

• Creating new features, understanding features in a driven product and proposing solutions that work for our platform,
• Writing functional and design specifications, programming, unit and integration testing your code,
• Helping review specifications and code for other software engineers in the team, helping documentation team with the configuration aspects of your feature.

We are hiring for a motivated Software Engineer who can make a difference in the team with their out of box thinking and you will be part of premiere Software engineering team that works on various ground breaking technologies in Enterprise Switches connecting to Cloud applications. Opportunity to work with powerful networking technologies in the areas of embedded switching, AI and network applications.

• You have a strong background in software development including specification, implementation and testing.
• Experience in programming in C/C++ language.
• Knowledge of embedded systems, kernel, drivers and PHY related firmware development is very important
• Strong OS fundamentals and networking concepts is necessary.
• Typically requires MSEE/CS combined with 6-8 years of related experience, or BSEE/CS combined with 8-10+ yrs related experience.
• Self-motivated, strong sense of ownership, good teammate

• Knowledge of L2, L3 and over-lay/virtualization/container technologies is a plus.
• Strong design/programming ethic. Knowledge of designing large-scale systems in Python/C/Java environments is preferred.
• Experience configuring and automating the deployment of MPLS based VPNs (MVPN, L3VPN, L2VPN) is a plus.
• From a technical point of view, you should have some familiarity with at least some of these areas: Linux platform development, Hardware bringup, Server platform development

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