# Software Engineering Technical Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $214,100.00 to $309,800.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world.

As a Software Engineering Technical Leader you will lead the design and implementation of advanced SONiC networking capabilities across SRv6, uSID, MRC, IPM, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and AI-scale data-center fabrics.

Responsibilities:

- Recognized as a technical expert in SONiC, SRv6, MRC, and AI infrastructure networking.

- Leads the architecture and development of complex features across SONiC, FRR, SAI, Linux, and merchant-silicon platforms.

- Drives SRv6/uSID, MRC, and IPM capabilities from technical design through implementation, validation, and production readiness.

- Develops solutions for traffic engineering, packet spraying, multipath resiliency, failure recovery, telemetry, performance measurement, and large-scale network fabrics.

- Leads integration and validation on Broadcom Tomahawk and Cisco Silicon One platforms.

- Drives interoperability between SONiC, IOS XR, and other industry routing platforms.

- Proactively identifies and resolves complex software, protocol, performance, scale, and hardware-integration issues.

- Develops and delivers innovative technical strategies for AI backend, scale-up, scale-out, cloud, and hyperscale data-center networks.

- Leads major projects that influence Cisco’s SONiC product direction and open networking strategy.

- Contributes to SONiC, SAI, FRR, OCP, IETF, and other open-source and industry initiatives.

- Defines and drives unit, system, scale, interoperability, regression, and fault-injection testing strategies.

- Builds long-term relationships with internal teams, customers, partners, and industry stakeholders.

- Represents Cisco in technical forums, working groups, customer engagements, and external industry events.

- Leads features from technical design through completion while negotiating trade-offs in architecture, performance, schedule, and product requirements.

- Leads, mentors, and influences senior engineers while improving technical knowledge sharing across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree plus 12 years of related experience, or Master’s degree plus 8 years of related experience, or PhD plus 5 years of related experience.

- Experience with network operating systems.

- Experience with routing and switching software like BGP, SONiC, SRv6, or large-scale data-center networking.

- 8 + years of software development experience using C, C++, or Python

Benefits:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year

- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday

- Paid year-end holiday shutdown

- 4 paid days off for personal wellness

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- SONiC
- SRv6
- MRC
- BGP
- EVPN
- VXLAN
- Linux
- C
- C++
- Python

### Nice to have
- FRR
- SAI
- Broadcom Tomahawk
- Cisco Silicon One
- IOS XR

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