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Meet the Team:

The Enterprise Switching organization delivers top-tier products, with the Catalyst Cat9000 series leading in core, aggregation, and access switching for security, IoT, and Cloud. These switches are essential for SD-Access, Cisco's intent-based networking architecture, offering the bandwidth, speed, and scale needed for hybrid work environments. They improve security with PoE power and AI/ML for zero-trust security and provide outstanding network experiences both on-premises and in the cloud through Cisco DNA Center or the Meraki Dashboard. The new Catalyst 9000X models offer flexible operations and secure, high-speed performance. Our team is world-class for creating industry-leading products that have redefined the enterprise market for decades through innovation.

Your impact

Looking forward to getting an exciting start to your career? You will bring your outstanding talents to the group that works on Cisco's Switching technology, which large enterprises now consider to be the Networking Equipment of choice for critically important networks. In your role as a Software Engineer, you will develop and integrate products that are deployed by some of the leading Enterprises in the world. You will work with a BU-wide vibrant technical community, learning from experts and translating this learning into exciting opportunities for personal growth. You will work on networking equipment that forms a crucial backbone of many offices, hospitals, educational and financial institutions. You will learn about ground breaking technologies and platforms while developing software for these equipments. Experience the exhilaration of taking a product through development and integration.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 1 - 3 years proven experience in internetworking technologies and applications.

• Good experience in developing software in C, under multi-threaded environment with Excellent problem-solving skills

• SDK Development: Design, implement, and maintain SDKs that enable seamless integration between software applications and underlying hardware or network layers

• Familiarity with DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit), P4 programming language, or similar frameworks for high-performance packet processing.

• • Experience with hardware platforms such as ASICs, FPGAs, or NPUs

• Hands on Data Structures, Operating Systems and Data Networking fundamentals

• Experience in development of Layer 2 (Ethernet) and/or Layer 3 Networking protocols including Routing, IPV4/6 (unicast/multicast) Is preferable

• Expertise in working with Linux OS

• Experience in any Cisco OS - XR, XE or NXOS would be a plus

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (MS preferred).

• Good hands on implementation experience with one or more of the following: RTOS Internals, High Availability, IPC, Memory management, Distributed communications Infrastructure, Serviceability, Linux, Containers, Virtualization

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.