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Software Engineer | L2/L3 protocols, Optical networking | 8-12 Years

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Bangalore, India Senior Posted 2026-03-25

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Meet the Team Cisco IOS XR India group is responsible for architecting, designing, developing and supporting solutions for some of the world's largest service providers and web enterprises that are constantly evolving to meet customer business requirements. The team owns key protocol components in the NOS and is in charge of router observability and application hosting frameworks. This development team gets interleaved in every stage of SDLC starting with requirements collection from product managers all the way to deployment, integration & support of the solution involving interactions with a plethora of customers. Exposure to end-to-end software development process, Opportunity to work with world's top web players, Exposure to cutting edge technologies in OS/distributed systems domain, Challenged to develop best-in-class software, Experience of working with industry's finest engineers. Your Impact Engineer will be part of development team which is responsible for Feature development, testing & integration into customer environments. Many-a-times encouraged to be SPOC for a particular area of a component. Expected to have regular interactions with product management teams, testing teams and customer teams to translate requirements into working solutions. Develop expertise in OS protocols. Learn Cisco development/unit-test environments. Issue triage/support/monitoring/resolution. Minimum Qualifications • Experience: 8 years to 12 years. • Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE/EC or technical equivalent. • Expert knowledge and hands-on experience in C • Sound knowledge of operating system concepts and system programming on UNIX based systems • Network and multithreaded programming Preferred Qualifications • Exposure to Netconf/Yang, GRPC, REST APIs, openconfig, sonic, SNMP is a plus • Exposure to L2/L3 protocols, Optical networking Why Cisco?  At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.  We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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