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Software Engineer - Networking

Cisco Systems, Inc.
United States, California, Milpitas
Sep 19, 2025
*This is a hybrid role working on-site a minimum of 3 days a week in Milpitas, CA office.* Meet the Team: The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group leads the development of products that power the world's largest networks, driving the industry's transformation to support the growing demands of AI/ML workloads and increasing internet usage. By leveraging open-source technologies and advancing Systems and Silicon Architecture, the team builds large-scale distributed systems, collaborates with open-source communities, and delivers end-to-end product development and production support in a fast-paced environment. Your Impact: As a Networking Engineer, you'll join an agile team engaged in the design, development and testing data-center features set in Cisco 8000 Platform using SONiC network operating system. In this role you'll have opportunity to design, develop and learn about many feature sets such as L2/L3 forwarding, ACLs, QoS, Mirroring, etc. Building and delivering data plane and control plane software Developing 'forwarding' and 'services' data plane feature sets Coding in C++ and Python to produce clean, maintainable code Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in CS (or related STEM field) with 5+ years of experience in Engineering, Master's with 3+ years of experience in Engineering or PhD with 1+ years of experience in Engineering Experience programming in C/C++ and Python Experience with Linux Preferred Qualifications: Knowledge of Open Standard Networking Systems and APIs: SONiC, SAI, etc Knowledge of Networking protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP, VxLAN, EVPN Experience using debugging tools such as GDB, PDB Understanding of tools such as GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools 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. Simply put - we power the future. 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.