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# Software Engineering Technical Leader

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Richardson, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $177,600.0 - $257,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C (Programming Language), JIRA, Automation of Tests, Border Gateway Protocol, C++ (Programming Language), Network Operating System (NOS), Data Centers, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Network Architecture, Network Protocols, Overlay Transport Virtualization, Software Engineering, Software Testing Automation Framework, Systems Integration, TCP/IP, Network Switches, Git, Cisco, Jenkins, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/CD7B092B9B82420D9D594B30F5BE481F/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience.
 * Experience in developing, maintaining, and enhancing the FBoss Test Portal or similar testing portals, including specific contributions to test automation frameworks, portal feature implementations, or performance improvements.
 * Experience with the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI), such as integrating or debugging SAI components within network switch environments.
 * Experience with Python, C, C++, GO or similar programming language, demonstrated through the creation of automation scripts, test cases, or tooling relevant to FBoss and network infrastructure testing.

Preferred qualifications:

 * Experience with C++ Knowledge of Linux Kernel
 * Knowledge of Networking protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP, VxLAN, EVPN, ACLs
 * Experience using debugging tools such as GDB, PDB
 * Understanding of tools such as GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools
 * Practical experience working with the Silicon One SDK, including development, testing, or deployment of network solutions leveraging this SDK.

## Description

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 chance to define, 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


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