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Cisco is hiring a Software Engineer in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cisco.

Level's read on this job

  • Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: aI is not part of the work.
  • The posting mentions Python, C and Ansible among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a mid-level role.
  • Cisco has 1,400+ other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Design and develop high-performance system software and networking infrastructure for enterprise platforms.

pythoncansibleyangnetconfgrpc
networkingoperating-systemsdistributed-systemssoftware-engineering

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the team


Catalyst Engineering IOS XE Platform Independent team - designs and develops high-performance system software for various Cisco Platforms which includes Enterprise Switching & Routers, wireless, Service Provider Routing Platforms.  This is one of the team where we are leading the Enterprise Industry with several innovations; and we are in an exciting phase in the constantly evolving market.

Your Impact:

·       Work with product management and product teams to understand requirements.

·       Think about customer use case and deployment scenarios and continuously innovate and improvise to make customer's life easy

·       Work with product teams to design and implement features, application logic, back-end systems and robust and scalable architectures

·       Write requirement, architecture and design specs, unit test plans

·       Design/Code/Test in a CI/CD environment

·       Review documents and code written by rest of the team

·       Uphold the highest standards of quality from documentation, coding and automated checks

·       Work independently on complex issues and implement optimal solutions on a predetermined timeline

·       Work with product marketing and product engineering to understand and shape product roadmap

Minimum Qualification

·       You love the challenge of solving problems that improve people’s and your customers lives

·       You are self-motivated through curiosity, a passion for building and an unruly desire to do good.

·       You hold a BS or MS degree in Computer Science OR equivalent

·       You have 2-3 years of industry experience

·       You have hands on experience in one or more of these technology areas:  Core Operating system, Networking technologies / Infrastructure development, L2/L3 Protocols, Cloud technologies, Ansible, Programmability - YANG Data Model development, Netconf/RestConf, Google RPC, Google Protocol buffers

·       You have experience supporting Telemetry artifices for large scale cloud/AI deployments

·       You are a seasoned programmer, and you know C/C++, Python very well.  

·       You are strong in OS / Network protocols knowledge

·       You have strong passion and experience in troubleshooting, debugging complex systems and possess excellent problem-solving techniques

·       Driven and leveraged AI tools and frameworks to design and deliver innovative software solutions


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. 


Disclaimer

To ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:

  • be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site
  • begin with screening or an interview
  • originate from a Cisco email address, and
  • be conducted across email, phone, or WebEx

 

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How we rate this

Software Engineer at Cisco rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

NetworkingOperating SystemsDistributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringPythonCAnsibleYang

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Pay

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$167k

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Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a project where networking was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where operating systems was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where software engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used Python in your day-to-day work.

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