Senior Software Engineer - C/C++ with Firmware & Networking |8-12 years

Overview

Senior firmware/software engineer role focused on developing production-grade switching system firmware and software for Cisco enterprise switching platforms.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and independently own networking components for enterprise switching software.
• Develop firmware and system software for Cisco switching products.
• Analyze requirements and problem statements to produce designs and specifications.
• Write high-quality C/C++ code and unit tests using white-box testing practices.
• Triaging and debug complex bring-up issues, regressions, crashes, performance problems, and customer failures.
• Work with cross-functional teams to review specifications and test/validation strategies.
• Contribute technical judgment, including mentorship, to improve architecture and engineering productivity.

What you'll need

• 8–12 years of relevant software/firmware development experience.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in C/C++ and debugging with data structures, algorithms, OOP, and memory management.
• Hands-on experience building firmware/embedded/system software for networking products.
• Strong system design ability to own feature/component-level architecture.
• Experience with concurrent programming, multithreading, synchronization, and IPC/RPC mechanisms.
• Strong L2/L3 networking knowledge including Ethernet, VLAN, STP/RSTP, LACP/LAG, ARP, IPv4/IPv6.
• Linux/system programming fundamentals and debugging with tools such as GDB, core dumps, Wireshark/tcpdump, and traffic generators/analyzers.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.