Software Engineer | C/C++, L2/L3 Protocols Forwarding

18 hours ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Cisco Full time ₹ 15,00,000 - ₹ 20,00,000 per year

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:
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.
  • 4+ years of relevant software development experience working with a Network Operating System.
  • 3+ 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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