Software Engineering Technical Leader

Overview

Senior C++ software engineering technical leader on the Silicon One SDK team at Cisco, developing next-generation silicon software with a focus on simplification, user experience and secure coding practices.

What you'll do

• Develop software consistent with Cisco Design Thinking Principles, with a focus on simplification and UX.
• Partner with design and product management to create the right solution for customers.
• Create technical design documentation and contribute to user documentation.
• Debug and address software issues during development and in production systems to support customers.
• Bring new ideas for product innovation and help improve software development processes.
• Use specialized expertise in one or more areas to interpret internal or external business issues and recommend best practices.
• Solve complex problems and identify innovative solutions; may lead small-to-medium features from technical design through completion.
• May lead projects spanning multiple teams; manage workload and workstreams holistically.
• Influence a defined software engineering roadmap.
• May lead medium-to-large features from technical design through completion.
• Provide expertise in the software development lifecycle and agile engineering strategies across applicable teams and partners.
• Lead and mentor others and improve the technical design of solutions.
• Advocate for new features within a product to address customer needs.
• Articulate design choices based on market awareness, product adoption and competition.
• Innovate new products to address unmet customer needs; influence and track metrics to measure success.
• Write functional clean code and unit tests at a level that sets the standard for coding across teams.
• Influence architectural decisions with a focus on security, scalability and reliability; contribute to threat modeling of a product.
• Proactively identify, prioritize and resolve risk and issues in production systems.
• Design and implement robust monitoring tools that provide visibility and reliability, and act on the data and alerts.
• Lead postmortems and review root cause analysis; ensure on-call coverage.
• Act as an expert on multiple functional components.
• May contribute to knowledge sharing with technical blogs or publications.
• Scope work accurately and provide reliable estimates for project milestones and completion.
• Communicate delivery trade-offs and negotiate with cross-functional partners to align direction and outcomes.
• Mentor peers and others on the team; facilitate knowledge sharing (e.g., brownbags, demos, design sessions).

What you'll need

• Bachelor's + 8 years of related experience, or Master's + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
• In-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in the primary technical job family and knowledge of related technical job families; has worked extensively with a range of technologies.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.