Sr. Data Plane Engineer - Technical Lead - Military Veterans
at Cisco Systems, Inc.
Application window has been extended and expected to close by 09/09/2024
Who We Are:
The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is going through a massive transformation to build the next generation infrastructure to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads and continuously increasing internet users and application. We are uniquely positioned to capture that market transition.
Who You'll Work With:
This team builds products by harnessing the potential of open-source technologies while pushing the boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture. They are developers and leaders who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies. You will be part of a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.
Who You Are:
You are curious and a problem solver. You love to learn and grow and work in an environment that is constantly evolving. You are a self-starter that thrives on learning information quickly and uses resources to research and resolve issues. You are comfortable working with multi-disciplinary, multicultural, and geographically dispersed teams. You are a technologist at heart and a leader in practice that is passionate about building and delivering data plane and control plane software. You are experienced building 'forwarding' and 'services' data plane feature sets and are diligent with an automation first focus and experienced with scripting languages and test frame works.
What You'll Do:
As a Data Plane 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 and develop multiple feature sets including:
- Layer 2 [Vlan, Port Channel, MCLAG]
- Layer 3 [V4, V6]
- QoS [Queuing, Policers, WRED, PFC, ECN]
- ACL [L2, L3, Ingress, Egress, ACL based forwarding]
- MS/BS degree in CS/EE/CE or technical equivalent.
- 8+ years of relevant software development experience.
- 5+ year's embedded software development experience using C, C++ and/or Python.
- 3+ years' data plane experience working with in NPU, DPU or software data plane.
- 3+ years' experience in data-plane forwarding technologies such as L2, L3, VXLAN, segment Routing and/or MPLS.
- Network Operating Systems in the Linux user space.
- GIT, Jira, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipeline tools.
- Virtualization and container technologies including KVM/Qemu, Docker and/or Kubernetes.
- Experience in data-plane services including ACL and queuing techniques like WRED, Policers, PFC, ECN and/or Alpha.
- Strong performance tuning skills.
- Team Lead experience.
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