Meet the Team

Cisco Networking builds industry-leading switching, routing, wireless, and cloud-managed networking solutions used by customers worldwide. We are looking for a hands-on senior firmware engineer with robust systems programming and networking expertise to help develop the next generation of high-performance switching software.

Join the Network Connectivity team, where you will design and develop production-grade firmware and system software for enterprise switching platforms. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will independently own significant features, contribute to technical design and architecture decisions, and work closely with networking, platform, quality, and product teams.

Your Impact

In this role, your work will directly enhance the connectivity, reliability, and configuration of L2/L3 protocols on Cisco switching platforms. You will own medium-to-large features from design through delivery, troubleshoot complex device and customer issues, and help raise the engineering bar through strong technical judgment and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Design,



develop, and own networking components that are simple, scalable, reliable, and supportable. Develop firmware and system software for Cisco switching products.
• Analyze requirements and problem statements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and produce clear software designs, detailed design documents, and functional specifications.
• Write high-quality C/C++ code and unit tests. Apply strong white-box testing and automation practices. Triage, debug, and root-cause software bring-up issues, regressions, crashes, performance problems, and customer failures.
• Work with local and remote teams to review product requirements, software functional/design specifications, unit and integration test plans, and validation strategy. Partner closely with system test and quality teams to ensure feature readiness.
• Contribute innovative ideas that improve product architecture, debuggability, performance, reli

📌 Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cisco
📍 Bengaluru