Software Engineer (C/Go+ VPP+ AWS+ Kubernetes + Proxy/SNI/Encryption| 4-8 years| Bangalore)

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  • Location:
    Bangalore, India
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Security
  • Job Id
    1438277

Meet The Team

Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) is at the forefront of developing solutions for addressing the security challenges of our customers. With an annual revenue exceeding $2B, it is one of the fastest growing businesses at Cisco. As Cisco is transforming its business model purposefully to a software and recurring revenue model, security business is leading this journey with 40%+ YoY growth in software recurring revenue.

The Cloud Security group within SBG focuses on developing cloud delivered security solutions (SaaS based) in a platform centric approach. This group is an autonomous group within the business group, and operates like a Startup to further innovation in a highly radical and high growth domain. This group was formed two years back by combining some of existing cloud assets Cisco had with two hugely successful acquisitions - OpenDNS and CloudLock. Our vision is to build the most complex security solutions in a cloud delivered way with utmost simplicity - disrupt industry's thinking around how deep and how broad a security solution can be while keeping it easy to deploy and simple to manage. We are at an exciting stage of this journey with 100% YoY growth, and looking for a hardworking, innovative and committed engineering leader for our Product Engineering group to help us scale our business.


Your Impact

  • You will work in a fast-paced, startup-like and highly dynamic environment. You will wear many hats, and your work will have a direct impact on the direction of new products and services that will enable success in Cisco Cloud Security business.
  • You are deeply interested in software design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring high-performant network service functions and a control plane that scales to thousands of nodes and large-scale customer adoption and sustenance.
  • You strive to explore industry and academic research to apply new ideas. You enjoy troubleshooting complex customer issues that require a deep understanding of network protocols and systems-level concepts.
  • You write readable, testable, and maintainable code strong and clear communicator that can concisely explain complex software design considerations.


Minimum Requirements

  • Have a minimum of 5+ years engineering experience with a strong track record of developing and delivering complex, distributed, software.
  • Proven experience with data plane (VPP) and web application technologies including Rust, GO, Python, C/C++
  • Experience of Networking, L3/L4, TCP/IP
  • Experience with SaaS and Cloud technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and AWS technologies
  • Knowledge of data center architectures, networking stack, compute stack, virtualization/container technologies, and distributed systems
  • Experience in the Security and Networking domain with understanding of Systems and Distributed computing with intimate knowledge of Linux and other Operating systems
  • Familiarity with routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, and RIP for highly scalable systems will be a plus.

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