Software Engineer

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in our office located in Milpitas, CA.

Meet the Team

You will work with a diverse group of some of the brightest problem solvers and thinkers in the Data Center Switching Team that work on next generation of Data Center & Cloud switches.

Your Impact

You will participate in projects involved in the development of software for our next generation network operating systems for Cisco’s industry leading N9K family of datacenter switches. You will be working on low level device drivers, OS components and application software that interact with home-grown and 3rd party ASICs, FPGAs and SDK.

• Define, design, and deliver new platforms for the Nextgen ASICs for the Cisco Data Center Switch Platforms
• Write complete functional and design specs independently
• Design & develop large portions of software independently and rapidly.
• Learn a wide range of Data Center technologies.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field combined with 2+ years of experience, or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related STEM field combined with 4+ yrs related experience.
• C, C++ programming skills
• Hands on experience working with switch/router embedded system software development
• Experience working with L2/L3 protocols

Preferred Qualifications:

• OS, System architecture, Linux device driver and user space knowledge
• Experience with high availability related to switch/router products