Software Engineer, SONiC, San Jose, CA

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of software solutions leveraging SONiC to interface with hardware infrastructure and platform-level components.
• Develop and maintain platform adaptation layers for seamless integration between SONiC and underlying hardware such as ASICs, BMC, and other platform elements.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to enable optimal hardware-software interactions and expose hardware capabilities through SONiC interfaces.
• Write, review, and optimize code for critical system modules, drivers, and APIs supporting high-performance data planes and control planes.
• Define the technical architecture to integrate SONiC with platform infrastructure, ensuring scalability and high availability.
• Design robust interfaces between SONiC and platform-specific management/control modules like telemetry, diagnostics, and security components.
• Lead efforts to optimize resource utilization, power efficiency, and operational stability of the network platform.
• Collaborate with product management and customers to understand use cases, gather requirements, and align work with business objectives.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools, technologies, and methodologies to accelerate development and testing cycles.

Requirements

• Bachelors in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in software development within the networking or telecommunication industry.
• Experience in C, C++, Python, bash scripting, Linux based platforms or other like network operating systems such as SONiC.
• Experience working with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes and/or similar.

Nice to Have

• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience with platform level security requirements and compliance frameworks.
• Understanding of telemetry systems and software-defined networking (SDN).
• Exposure to SONiC or experience working with the SONiC open-source community.
• Knowledge of hardware abstraction layers and SDKs from major networking silicon providers (such as Broadcom, Marvell, Mellanox etc).
• Experience leading teams or technical projects in a complex development environment.
• Experience with platform infrastructure such as ASIC drivers, BMC, and network OS development.

Qualifications

• Formal educational background includes a Bachelor's or Master's degree in STEM fields.

Benefits & Perks

• 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 numerous wellbeing offerings.
• Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, including one floating holiday and a day off for birthdays.
• Vacation time off, with flexible policies for exempt employees.
• Eighty hours of sick time off provided on hire and annually, with carryover options.
• Paid time off for volunteering and community engagement.
• Performance-based incentive pay for sales roles, with detailed incentive structures.