Software Engineer - C And Linux

Meet the Team

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We are Data Center Networking solutions team that emphasizes on Software defined Networking and develops products that deliver ultra-reliable performance with scalable infrastructure, providing a robust foundation for modern Data Center networking. These solutions offer high performance, resilience, and automation capabilities, designed to meet the diverse demands of today’s data centers including distributed storage, virtualization, unified computing. It primarily focuses to simplify the datacenter/cloud infrastructure and operations by automating the network, providing pervasive security, and helping accelerate businesses to move to a cloud or multicloud environment. With our solutions customers can manage complexity, maximize business benefits, and deploy workloads in any location, small and large, on premises and remote locations, in private and public clouds, satellite data centers, and 5G-enabled telecom edges .

Your Impact

As a Software Engineer in the team, you will contribute to the design, development, and operation of our comprehensive data fabric that enables data-driven decision-making and high-impact product features across Cisco. Youll work closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and data experts to build scalable data infrastructure and intelligent data management capabilities that power internal and external services. You will be:

• Involved in design and development of sophisticated and robust logic and backend infrastructure that supports large-scale data and compute workflows.
• Collaborate across teams to design solutions that meet performance, reliability, and security requirements.
• Contribute to the automation and optimization of engineering processes
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from ideation and design to deployment and monitoring.
• Help shape engineering standards, technical architecture, and operational best practices within the team.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, with 5-6 years of relevant industry experience.
  
  

Desired Skills:

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including design, development, testing with coding standards.
• Proficient in programming in C++, OS internals (such as multi-threading, file systems, process management, synchronization etc).
• 5+ years of experience working in Linux environments, with excellent debugging skills.
• Exposure to Git source control management, build processes.
  
  

Good to have skills:

• Exposure to distributed systems, data center fabric solutions
• Knowledge of cloud architecture and services
• Exposure to Golang, python languages is a plus
  
  

Soft skills:

• Independent, Accountable, Good sense of ownership, Outspoken, Communicative.
• Flexible and adaptable and a good team collaborator.
• Ability and motivation to learn new technologies quickly and with minimal support.
• Motivated self-starter with strong communication and organizational skills
• Proven ability to develop and deliver high-quality products within cross-functional teams and tight schedules
• Excellent problem-solving, and collaboration capabilities
  
  

#WeAreCisco

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Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

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