What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Platform Forwarding position at Cisco Systems, Inc.?
Meet the Team
The Platform Forwarding team at Cisco develops innovative software solutions across the routing, switching, and wireless platform portfolio, transforming networking through groundbreaking technologies. Our team is deeply invested in reshaping IT consumption for our customers, specifically through the Cisco 8000 Series, one of our most successful routing products that leverages the advanced Silicon One architecture. Introduced to revolutionize the Internet for the 5G era, the 8000 Series focuses on performance, efficiency, and sustainability, aiding service providers and web-scale companies in reducing the costs of building and operating mass-scale networks for the 5G, AI, and IoT era. This unified, programmable architecture is designed to serve various network environments, from web-scale data centers to 5G network edges and enterprise access points. Specifically, our team emphasizes Layer 3 forwarding on the Cisco IOS XR operating system, enhancing network environments for the world's largest service providers and hyperscalers.
Your Impact
Are you pushing the envelope? As a Software Engineer working on platform forwarding at Cisco, you will be crafting, implementing, and empowering the next-generation software stack for Cisco's route, switch, and wireless portfolio. You will be part of a dynamic agile development team utilizing state-of-the-art software and tools to develop innovative solutions with a focus on simplicity. Your role will involve working on the test architecture and design of next-generation networks for the SP Routing portfolio of XR-based products, with a workload split of 30% sustaining engineering and 70% new development. Other responsibilities include...
- Gather functional specifications, design and develop forwarding applications, and test the code.
- Develop network automation, algorithmic thinking, and analytics applications derived from customer use cases.
- Design, develop, automate, and implement new hardware or features across complex network architectures using C/C language.
- Define and qualify end-to-end solution architectures, engage in debugging complex network problems, and define solutions.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of new features and improvements.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors in STEM with 6 years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 4 years of relevant experience
- Previous programming experience with C or C
- Automation experience with Python
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience in networking, including experience with networking protocols such as (IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, RIP, etc.)
- Experience using GO programming language to write unit tests
- Familiarity with Linux environments
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Experience in network virtualization development
- Experienced with modern software tools and techniques for development/debugging and validated software design and development skills
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