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Meet the Data-Center-Networking Team

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We are Data Center Networking solutions team that emphasizes on Software defined Networking and develops products that deliver ultra-reliable performance with scalable infrastructure, providing a robust foundation for modern Data Center networking. These solutions offer high performance, resilience, and automation capabilities, designed to meet the diverse demands of today’s data centers including distributed storage, virtualization, unified computing. It primarily focuses to simplify the datacenter/cloud infrastructure and operations by automating the network, providing pervasive security, and helping accelerate businesses to move to a cloud or multi-cloud environment. With our solutions customers can manage complexity, maximize business benefits, and deploy workloads in any location, small and large, on premises and remote locations, in private and public clouds, satellite data centers, and 5G-enabled telecom edges.

Your Impact

As a Software Engineer in the team, you will contribute to the design, development, and operation of our comprehensive data fabric that enables data-driven decision-making and high-impact product features across Cisco. You'll work closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and data experts to build scalable data infrastructure and intelligent data management capabilities that power internal and external services. You will be:

• Involved in design and development of sophisticated and robust logic and backend infrastructure that supports large-scale data and compute workflows.

• Collaborate across teams to design solutions that meet performance, reliability, and security requirements.

• Contribute to the automation and optimization of engineering processes

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from ideation and design to deployment and monitoring.

• Help shape engineering standards, technical architecture, and operational best practices within the team.

• Writes functional clean code and unit tests with guidance.

• Performs parts of the coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process under supervision.

• Applies depth of knowledge in secure coding principles and reviews others' code for compliance.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors + 2 years of related experience OR Masters + 0 years of related experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Minimum 1-2 years of full software development life cycle, including design, development, testing.

• Exposure to programming languages such as Go and Python, including leveraging AI-assisted development tools to write, test, and optimize code.

• Fundamental knowledge of Linux OS internals (such as file systems, process management, synchronization, multi-threading etc).

• Basics of Network concepts such as LANs, WANs, VLANs, TCP/IP protocols, routers, switches (Layer 2 and Layer 3).

• Exposure to working on Linux systems or environments with good debugging skills.

• Good debugging skills.

Good to have skills:

• Exposure to distributed systems, data center fabric solutions

• Knowledge of cloud architecture and services

• Exposure to Git source control management, build processes.

Soft skills:

• Independent, Accountable, Good sense of ownership, Outspoken, Communicative.

• Flexible and adaptable during tight timelines and a good team collaborator.

• Ability and motivation to learn new technologies quickly and with minimal support.

• Motivated self-starter with strong communication and organizational skills

• Proven ability to develop and deliver high-quality products within cross-functional teams and tight schedules

• Excellent problem-solving, and collaboration capabilities

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.

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