Senior Manager

Cisco Smart Spaces and Wireless Engineering is pioneering the future of smart workspaces, IoT sensor connectivity, and cloud-managed infrastructure.

As a Senior Manager, you will lead, inspire, and grow high-performing software development and sustaining engineering teams in Bangalore.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and people leadership across key initiatives, including Catalyst/Meraki BLE firmware, CMX sustaining, Native Connect, and partner IoT integrations.
• Partner closely with Product Management (PLM), Platform Architecture, and QA to align technical roadmaps, sprint execution, and multi-topology release commitments.
• Champion engineering excellence, code quality, test automation (CI/CD, CoverageHub), and platform security (EU CRA standards).
• Foster talent development, mentoring senior engineers and driving career growth within the Bangalore engineering center.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in networking, embedded systems, or cloud/IoT platforms, with 4+ years in engineering management.
• Proven track record leading multi-disciplinary software teams delivering enterprise-grade networking/wireless software.
• Strong background in C/C++, Linux/RTOS embedded systems, microservices, gRPC, and cloud integration protocols (MQTT, REST).
• Deep understanding of wireless/IoT protocols (BLE, Wi-Fi 6E/7/8, UWB, Zigbee) is a strong plus.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership, stakeholder communication, and distributed team collaboration skills.

Benefits: No specific benefits mentioned.

Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond.