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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), JIRA, Automation of Tests, Border Gateway Protocol, C++ (Programming Language), Network Operating System (NOS), Computer Programming, Data Centers, Software Debugging, Linux, Python (Programming Language), Network Protocols, Overlay Transport Virtualization, TCP/IP, Loadable Kernel Module, Computer Networking Systems, Git, Cisco, Jenkins
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_050631eebabe293ee312fe216223de19

## About the Role

* Bachelors + 7 years of related experience OR Masters + 4 years of related experience OR PhD + 1 year of related experience.
 * 3+ years of programming experience in C/C++
 * 2+ yearsof experience usingPythonto build automated test suites for kernel module validation, including experience with frameworks likePytest
 * 2+ years of experience with Linux, * Knowledge of Linux Kernel
 * Knowledge of Open Standard Networking Systems and APIs: SONiC, SAI, etc.
 * 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

## 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 create, 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