Software Engineer | C/C++, Linux system programming, Networking , Security | 4-8 years

Location: Bangalore, India

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

 Meet the Team 

Our team is dedicated to architecting, developing, and maintaining advanced security modules for Cisco’s IOS XR Network Operating System (NOS). We enable robust protection and secure communication for the world’s largest networks through:

• Encryption Technologies: Implementing and optimizing protocols such as MACsec and IPSec to ensure data confidentiality and integrity both in transit and at rest.

• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): Building scalable and reliable PKI solutions to enable secure device authentication, certificate management, and trusted communications.

• Core Security Infrastructure:

• Secure key management and cryptographic services

• Integration with management interfaces, including CLI and programmable APIs for secure configuration and automation

• Support for compliance and security standards relevant to service providers and cloud networks

Our team consists of security experts and software engineers who are passionate about protecting critical network infrastructure for the world’s leading web scalers, cloud providers, and service providers.

Your Impact 

As a key member of Cisco IOS XR Platform Independent Software Development team, you will:

• Collaborate with account teams, product management, other engineering team, architect and design sophisticated product requirements/challenges.

• Demonstrate strong technical leadership via innovative solutions to customer problems including successful deployment.

• Be in the forefront of development of complex projects, working with managers for detailed planning and execution strategy, identify intermediate, well-defined achievements.

• Strengthen product quality by identifying hot spots and deriving solution for the same.

• Keep up to date with technology trends relevant to the group, adopt newer technologies and rapid prototyping to demonstrate. 

Minimum Qualifications

• BE/B.Tech or higher degree in CS/EC or equivalent with 6-9 years in the networking or equivalent domains

• An accomplished systems engineer with experience in building resilient, scalable, and secure platforms using opensource and commercial software

• Extensive experience in architecting and design of complex networking systems and various software engineering principles          

• Expert and experience in C/C++, Python, Linux system programming, process and memory management, multithreading

Preferred Qualifications

• Security knowledge is a plus.

• Experience with kernel programming and open-source technologies is a plus

• XR knowledge will be preferred for internal requisition

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.

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.