Meet the Team
Join the Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance embedded software group, where a passionate team of engineers focuses on delivering innovative network and application performance assurance solutions. Our larger embedded R&D organization develops scalable and secure network switching and performance monitoring products.

Your Impact
As a Software Technical Leader, you will guide the development of cutting-edge technologies impacting global users, lead the design and coding efforts across the software stack while ensuring eliability and performance in our next-generation Provider Connectivity Assurance hardware. You will also:

Lead feature development from technical design through completion across multiple teams. Influence architectural decisions focusing on security, scalability, and reliability. Create software requirements, architecture, and design documents. Develop, test, and debug code across the entire software stack. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to coordinate project scope and product development.

Minimum Qualifications:

Proficient in developing multithreaded embedded software in C/C++ Experience with networking protocols (TCP, UDP, IPv4/v6, VLAN) Ability to lead projects and provide technical guidance to software engineers

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with agile development frameworks and tools (Jira, Confluence, GitHub) Experience with network management protocols (SNMP, Netconf, Yang, RestCONF) Proficiency in scripting languages (bash, Python) Experience with Linux kernel development, and building custom Linux distributions Knowledge of software security mechanisms (authentication, authorization, cryptography, encryption, digital signatures, system hardening) Knowledge of ARM CPU architectures and ecosystems
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