Software Engineer - Customer Experience - SDK - L2/L3

Overview

Software Engineer on Cisco’s Silicon One software team to drive design, development, integration, and optimization of software solutions across Cisco and open-source networking operating systems.

What you'll do

• Triage customer issues and optimize software features for cloud, data center, and AI/ML networking deployments.
• Collaborate with architecture, SDK, platform software, and NOS teams to deliver scalable, high-performance networking solutions.
• Participate in software integration involving L2/L3 forwarding, ACL, QoS, traffic management, congestion management, and load-balancing.
• Troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve software and networking issues in development, qualification, and production environments.
• Support solution validation, deployment planning, performance tuning, and feature adoption activities.
• Contribute to automation, validation, testing, and continuous integration frameworks to improve software quality and deployment efficiency.
• Participate in design reviews and technical planning activities.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of software development experience with a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Strong software development expertise in C++ and Python.
• Experience developing software on Linux-based systems.
• Experience developing, integrating, or debugging networking software using SDKs and abstraction layers.
• Experience with Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) or similar networking abstraction frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking technologies and protocols.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.