Platform Routing - C, Linux, Drivers and Systems Engineer

Meet the Team

Hardware Routing Platform Software under Catalyst Engineering Routing team builds industry leading Headend SDWAN and Edge routing platforms (Catalyst 8500 and ASR1000) is part of a bigger team that is currently working on building next generation routing and services in controller-based network deployment at scale, enabling the customers to avail secure, reliable, and fast connectivity in a highly distributed SDWAN fabric spanning across the globe connecting thousands of devices and millions of users.

Join us and be part of the high energy team, help transform and build intelligent internet.

Your Impact

You will have the opportunity to work with leading-edge networking technologies in the areas of SDWAN and edge routing platforms and be part of the team responsible for defining, developing, and innovating new and evolving features and architectures in SDWAN and routing. You will work in collaboration with team who will define the next generation ASIC for routing products which would require new architecture for packet forwarding. You will participate in many creative projects, with the authority and scope to apply your expertise in a dynamic engineering environment. Our team values collaboration, learning, paramount focus on quality and customer impact. You will get a chance to work with various teams across varied technologies and will learn and be part of an ever growing, evolving technology. You will be responsible for crafting, coding and testing forwarding components with focus on end-to-end visibility and knowledge. You will have the opportunity to influence the network behavior by collaborating with other Engineers, Technical Leaders and Distinguished engineers across multiple cross-functional teams in Cisco.

This role is for you if you believe you are passionate about problem solving, can articulate problems in a way that people start seeing solutions in it as well. You are someone who challenges the status quo and a driver of change.

Minimum Qualifications and Requirement:

• 3-4 years of Industry experience. Hands on experience on End-to-End Software development in a networking company in areas of Platforms, Hardware, bring up, system software, drivers (kernel and user space), bootloaders, BIOS and performance engineering/tuning
• Strong C programming in Linux and device drivers with skills and familiarity with large software development projects in an UNIX or IOS environment including experience with source code control systems, i.e. ability to search, navigate and handle extremely large code base.
• Experience with LAN/WAN communication interfaces, Ethernet layer 2, layer 3 technologies.
• Experience with hardware and software debuggers, GDB, Arium, BDI.
• Experience with scripting and automation and to be able to design, create and run scripts for longevity tests for platform, e.g Shell, Python, Perl, TCL, Expect.

The successful candidate will participate on project teams defining and developing innovative new products based on Cisco technology.

Key functions are following:

• Develop, enhance, verify and sustain embedded system software for complex internetworking products as a key member of a cross-functional team.
• Perform design trade-off analysis, write software specifications, code, integrate and test new software and hardware, complete product release, and provide field support.
• Interface with Business Development, External Partners, Hardware Engineering, QA Test and Release Operations throughout the development cycle.
• Act as Key Decision maker on Technical and Engineering Design issues.

Desirable skills:

• Knowledge or demonstrated experience with high-speed interfaces, PHY, MAC, MACSEC experience will be a plus.
• Some of the key areas of expertise in addition to Networking domain is platform/System Areas such as kernel bring up, kernel driver development, platform bring up/ management software and Cloud Networking Technologies.
• Experience in debugging platform issue with i2c, i2c trace analyzers, PCIe.
• Knowledge of X86, ARM assembly code.
• Motivated self-starter with good communication and organizational skills, with demonstrated ability to develop and deliver superior products in a cross-functional team environment under aggressive schedules.
• Knowledge and experience of micro code and forwarding, datapath plus.
• Knowledge and experience of DPDK is plus.

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