Software Engineer - (Linux, C, Redfish, IPMI, SNMP)

Cisco

San Jose, CA

Full Time

Senior

10 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

We are Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) Chassis Management Software team, responsible for developing and maintaining the chassis management software for Cisco's UCS blade server product line. Our team plays a meaningful role in delivering the reliability, performance, and innovation customers expect from Cisco's data center solutions. Collaborating closely with hardware, platform and cloud teams, we help to deliver the future of compute infrastructure. As a software engineer in this team, you will craft, maintain, and support embedded chassis management software for Cisco's UCS products, with opportunities to learn, grow, and influence the future of compute infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement platform chassis management software for next-generation UCS products.
Collaborate with hardware, SQA, and other software teams.
Investigate and help resolve complicated field issues.
Identify and help deliver quality improvements.
Support and maintain embedded chassis management software for Cisco's UCS family of products.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience in C programming.
5+ years of Linux embedded software development experience.
Experience developing and debugging multi-threaded Linux applications.
Experience with chassis or baseboard management controller software (CMC, BMC) or similar.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to Have

Experience with Chassis power management or Chassis thermal management.
Experience with scripting languages such as Shell (Bash) or Python.
Experience implementing proprietary or standard management protocols such as SNMP, IPMI, Redfish.
Experience with embedded systems buses such as I2C, PMBus, SPI, PCIe.
Socket-based programming and the ability to read schematics.
Linux kernel and driver experience.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
7+ years of experience in C programming.
Experience with Linux embedded software development.

Benefits & Perks

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance.
A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
Short and long-term disability coverage.
Basic life insurance and wellbeing offerings.
Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, including one floating holiday and a day off for birthdays.
Vacation time off: up to 16 days for non-exempt employees, flexible vacation policy for exempt employees.
Sick time off: 80 hours provided at hire and annually, with a maximum of 160 hours carried forward.
Paid time off for critical or emergency issues and additional paid time for volunteering.

Working at 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. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Our solutions are everywhere, and so is our impact.

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