Software Engineering Technical Leader | Python,Service provider Networking | 8 to 13 Years | Bangalore

Overview

Provide hands-on technical leadership for the Cisco Crosswork Hierarchical Controller, a product that helps service providers understand, automate and control complex IP and optical networks. Drive design, architecture and development of Network Management System (NMS) solutions for telecom networks.

What you'll do

• Translate network management requirements into scalable, reliable and maintainable software solutions while ensuring adherence to architectural standards, coding best practices and delivery commitments.
• Define architecture, technical strategy and multi-release roadmaps; translate product and operational needs into clear designs and implementation plans.
• Design and evolve workflows for service provider network observability and management.
• Improve scalability and performance across services through concurrency, query optimization, batching and streaming, memory and network efficiency, and rendering improvements.
• Strengthen security, privacy and resilience throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Influence the team's adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and agentic workflows, while advancing AI-enabled product capabilities.
• Strengthen engineering excellence through code reviews, automated testing, quality metrics, and improvements to CI/CD and release practices across the application suite.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree + 8 years of related experience, or Master's degree + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
• Experience designing and developing Network Management Systems or telecom network management applications.
• Strong hands-on experience writing concurrent Python code for complex applications.

Nice to have

• Proven technical leadership of complex initiatives from architecture through production, including planning, cross-team coordination, technical reviews and mentoring.
• Strong full-stack and distributed-systems expertise, with depth in application scalability.
• Experience with service-provider networking and technologies such as IP, MPLS, SR-TE, SRv6, IS-IS, BGP, Ethernet services or optical transport.
• Experience with databases, messaging systems and event-driven architectures.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India (ATS line); job title lists Bangalore.
• Experience level stated as 8 to 13 years.