Software Engineer

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Software Engineer, Wireless

What You’ll Do

Want to take your career to the next level? Bring your outstanding talents to Enterprise Networking, the engineering team at Cisco that builds the software powering networking platforms for applications such as routing, switching, wireless, cable access and internet of things.

As a Software Engineer, you will be involved in solving new, ambitious problems. You will develop and maintain wireless products and industry-leading software platforms that capitalize on the trend toward all devices, machines, and vehicles becoming connected and integrated with traditional enterprise networks. Build high performance, highly scalable, multi-cloud environment, complex and distributed systems - end to end. Participate in the full software development lifecycle for a large system – at scale. The main responsibilities are:

• Design and develop new features for Cisco Wireless products: writing specifications, coding, unit testing and integration of the code across multiple platforms.
• Test on simulated and real hardware in typical customer scenarios as well as stress and scale scenarios.
• Contribute to the automation of unit, integration, feature, and system level testing.
• Support and maintain the quality of the software, help customers to debug issues and fix defects.
• Plan, design, operate and improve continuous integration and automated testing systems; write, deliver, and maintain tests for the toolset.
  
  

Who You’ll Work With

Be part of building next generation scalable wireless solutions.

As an integral member of this team, you will work with a diverse group of engineers at all career levels. We architect, design, and develop some of the key features that are continuously evolving towards enabling the support of newer and exciting customer business paradigms. You will be interacting and working closely with some of the finest talent in the industry – where you will find that work is both fun and challenging!

Who You Are

Excellent quality is what drives you. To ensure this, you have a good understanding of embedded software, and knowledge of L2, L3 protocols. You possess the skills to work in a highly collaborative, inclusive, and agile atmosphere in partnership with multi-functional teams. You want to learn, grow, and evolve.

Education And Experience

University degree in computer science, electrical engineering or equivalent, combined with relevant industry working experience (approximately one to five years).

Mandatory Skills

• Ability to write good software in C and C++.
• Networking experience including TCP/IP and networking protocols.
• Confirmed problem-solving skills.
• Experience in testing, troubleshooting and debugging.
• Adaptable, proactive, and willing to take ownership.
• Strong interpersonal skills: You should be able to multitask with multiple people and distributed teams.
  
  

Desired Skills

• Python knowledge.
• Experience with real-time O/S and with Unix/Linux development tools.
• Understanding of Wireless Networking Technologies and 802.11.
• Cloud technologies, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Experience with scripting and unit, integration test tools and dashboards a plus.
• Dedication to customer success is key to this role.
  
  

Why Cisco

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to craft the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren’t afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.

We are technology leaders with vision, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.

We Are Cisco.