Software Engineer

About the Team/Company

This is the Enterprise Access Switching Group at Cisco. Cisco is the industry leader in enterprise networking with a proven track record in building innovative wired and wireless solutions. Enterprise switching forms the backbone of an organization's wired network, ensuring reliable, secure, and efficient connectivity between all devices and services.

The candidate will be part of a team of engineers involved in the development of software for our next generation Campus switching architectures.

About the Role

Day to day activities will involve creating new features, understanding features in a competitive 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.

Qualifications

• MSEE/CS combined with 3-4 years of related experience or BSEE/CS combined with 5+ years of experience

Required Skills

• Experience in writing software in C/C++
• Excellent Layer 2 and Layer 3 knowledge/hands-on experience
• Good understanding of various networking protocols and standards
• Strong passion and experience in troubleshooting, debugging complex systems
• Excellent problem-solving techniques
• Execute tests, track and log issues and drive them till resolution with verification of bug fixes

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of scripting in Python
• Knowledge of Device Drivers, Linux OS, and embedded systems