Senior Software Engineer: SONiC Development & Automation @ Cisco

Who Youll Work With

This team builds products by harnessing the potential of open-source technologies while pushing the boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture. They are developers and leaders who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies.

As a senior software engineer, you will work closely with a group of engineers, QA and automation engineers, collaborate extensively with technical leads and engineering managers. You need to be ready to present solutions to customers and other stakeholders.

You will be involved with a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.

What You'll Do

The SONiC team in DSE is looking for awesome talented individuals to help build their Next Generation NOS.

In this role, you will be responsible to design and develop SONiC solution, collaborate with product management teams, other technical leads and architects. During development cycle, beside development of features, you will also focus on automation using scripting languages and test frameworks. You'll be responsible to ensure that the solution built is secured, scalable and meets customer SLAs. You also innovate as you learn the new technology.

You are hands on and ready to build best in class products for Datacenter Enterprise customers and Service Providers.

Who You Are

You have a proven track record of designing and developing containerized solutions and software solutions.

• Minimum 10 years of software development and automation experience, preferably in product companies with very good exposure on distributed architecture.
• Actively coding and automating functionalities with at least 3+ years of hands-on experience with virtualization and container technologies e.g. Docker.
• Adept in Python as coding language.
• Hands-on work experience working with software data and control plane software, Linux user space/OS internals.
• Comfortable with networking technologies such as L2, L3, VLAN, Port Channel, LAG, VXLAN, Segment Routing, BGP, QoS, ACL etc.
• Experience in designing, modelling, performance testing. Worked with opensource tools and databases (e.g. Redis).
• Experience in writing and testing of software for high performing and scalable data canter / service provider networking products.
• Working knowledge of GitHub, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Self-motivated and quick learner with excellent problem-solving skills, logical thinking and a hunger to learn new technologies.
• Good team player with nice communication and presentation skills.
• If you have worked on SONiC program earlier, it is a huge plus.