Software Technical Leader - C++, Linux, Dataplane, Controlplane

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  • Location:
    Bangalore, India
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Network
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Networking
  • Job Id
    1442264

Meet the Team:

The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is going through a massive transformation to build the next generation infrastructure to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads. The products developed by the DSE group are designed to support large-scale web environments, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability. We are uniquely positioned to capture that market transition. This team builds products by harnessing the potential of Cisco IOS-XR Operating Systems and Silicon Architecture.

Your Impact:

You are curious and a problem solver at heart. You love to learn, grow and work in an environment that is constantly evolving. You are a self-starter that thrives on learning information quickly and uses resources to research and resolve issues. You are comfortable working with multi-disciplinary, multicultural, and geographically dispersed teams. You are a technologist at heart and an engineer who is passionate about building and delivering data plane and control plane software. You are experienced building ‘forwarding’ and ‘services’ data plane feature sets and are diligent with an automation first focus and experienced with scripting languages and test frame works.

As an Engineer, you'll join a team engaged in the design, development and testing Layer2/Layer3 feature sets required for both Web scalars and Service providers. In this role you’ll have opportunity to design and develop multiple feature sets including:

Layer 2, Layer 3, Control plane handling, host of security features to protect the routers from DDOS attacks. Having system level knowledge on overall architecture of Forwarding and Infrastructure is an added advantage.

Minimum Qualifications:

MS/BS degree in CS/EE/CE or technical equivalent.

6+ years of relevant software development experience working with a Network Operating System.

5+ year’s embedded software development experience using C, C++ and/or Python.

3+ years’ data plane experience working with in NPU, DPU or software data plane.

3+ years’ experience in data-plane forwarding technologies such as L2, L3, VXLAN, segment Routing and/or MPLS.

Experience in algorithms and data structures.

Experience in analytical reasoning and debugging, with practical experience in using tools such as GDB, etc.

Experience with networking protocols and technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

Network Operating Systems in the Linux user space.

Experience in Control plane, data-plane knowledge and Forwarding Infrastructure.

Strong performance tuning skills.

Microcode programming skills in P4 or other similar network programming languages

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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! 

 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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