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

In this role, you will be responsible to build and deploy SDK solution, collaborate with engineering teams, technical leads and architects. You will adopt new development tools and infrastructure, manage release engineering activities, CICD pipelines, come up with efficient build mechanisms and accelerate software development process.
You’ll also be responsible to ensure that the solution built is secured, safe from cyber security threats and meets global and Cisco standards. As you learn the new technologies, you propose new ideas and implement those continuously in the development process.

DevOps, Tools and Infra development:

• Design and development of DevOps components for network operating systems 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 Infrastructure component. 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

• Around 10 years of software development experience, with very good exposure on distributed architecture.
• Atleast 3 years of hands-on working experience with Docker and Linux-based infrastructures.
• Successful track record of improving infrastructure through automation and development of tools.
• Excellent knowledge on how to build applications by using make files, source code management, Maven, Debian images etc.
• Working knowledge of various tools and open-source technologies.
• Adept in Python and Groovy scripts. Proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows.
• Comfortable with GitHub, Jira, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins.
• Good understanding of monitoring, alerting, logging frameworks, databases including NoSQL databases.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Good team player with nice communication and presentation skills.
• Self-motivated and quick learner. Strong will to accelerate agile development process.
• If you have worked on SONiC program earlier, it is a huge plus.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.