# Software Engineer - C/C++ Networking & Security

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Lead to join our team building secure networking solutions in a high-impact, fast-paced environment. Your work will help build scalable, secure systems that enable site-to-site and remote access VPNs, certificate-driven trust models, cloud connectivity, and AI-enhanced secure SD-WAN architectures including initiatives in post-quantum security.

**Your Impact**

- Lead the design and development of secure networking solutions across VPN (IPSec/IKEv2), PKI, cryptography, and SD-WAN Platform Infra

- Architect systems that ensure high scalability, resiliency, and security posture

- Drive multi-functional teamwork to deliver critically significant features

- Improve performance, reliability, and operational excellence of distributed systems at scale

- Influence technical direction and execution for high-impact projects that improve scalability, resiliency, security posture, and customer experience

- Drive innovation in next-generation secure networking initiatives

- Take complete ownership from conception to production release by demonstrating your ability to influence, facilitate, and work multi-functionally across teams

- Drive the adoption of AI-assisted tools such as Codex to improve engineering productivity, automate development workflows, accelerate debugging, and enhance software quality across the team

- Lead, mentor, and spread standard processes to other specialists on the team

**Minimum Qualifications**

- 8+ years of deep technical experience across networking and security domains, large-scale, production-grade systems

- Strong programming expertise in C/C++

- Deep understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, routing, distributed systems)

- Validated experience in system design and architecture for scalable, reliable systems

- Track record of leading critical projects end-to-end

- Experience in embedded Linux software development

- Ability to influence technical direction across teams

- Good communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience with IPSec VPN technologies

- Embedded Linux system development, Yocto-based build system expertise, and cloud platform integration skills.

- Understanding of PKI systems and certificate lifecycle management

- Background in network security, SD-WAN, or secure connectivity

- Exposure to cryptographic systems and protocols

- Experience demonstrating AI-assisted development tools to improve team productivity

- Exposure to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) or cryptographic agility

- Experience chipping in to networking/security standards (RFCs)

## Skills

### Required
- C/C++
- Networking
- Security
- Linux
- System Design
- Architecture
- TCP/IP
- Routing
- Distributed Systems

### Nice to have
- IPSec VPN
- PKI systems
- Certificate Lifecycle Management
- SD-WAN
- Cryptographic Systems
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- AI-assisted development tools

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