Meet the Team

Looking for an exciting next step in your career? The Catalyst Engineering IOS XE Platform Independent team designs and develops high-performance system software for a wide range of Cisco platforms, including enterprise switches, routers, wireless controllers, Industrial IoT devices, and service-provider routing platforms.
Our team is helping lead the enterprise networking industry through continuous innovation during an exciting period of rapid market evolution. The opportunities to learn, innovate, and make an impact are boundless—and your experience and perspective will add to the energy and strength of our team.

Your Impact

As a Software Engineer, you will design and develop next-generation control-plane and data-plane software for Cisco IOS XE and its enterprise networking and security platforms. You will learn about groundbreaking technologies and platforms while developing software for industry-leading networking equipment.
Using AI and AI-assisted technologies, you will translate complex requirements into secure, robust, and scalable solutions.



You will lead significant features from development through integration, create creative intellectual property, and directly influence the performance, reliability, and security of Cisco’s global networking infrastructure.

Responsibilities
- Lead large and complex features from requirements definition and architecture through implementation, validation, and production deployment.
- Drive technical decisions and system-level trade-offs for platform-independent database infrastructure, including data models and management frameworks that support switches, routers, wireless controllers, and IoT devices.
- Establish standards for developing clean, secure, scalable, and maintainable software.
- Lead architecture, design, and code reviews, as well as threat-modeling and production-readiness assessments.
- Develop strategies, tools, and processes that improve software quality, reliability, performance, an

📌 Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cisco
📍 Bengaluru