Software Engineer
Cisco · Posted Oct 19
Networking, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT infrastructure services
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About the role
The team develops software using Cisco Design Thinking principles, secure coding practices, and UX-focused design, partnering with product and design teams and supporting production systems. The role involves coding, testing, debugging, and test automation, with a strong emphasis on optical technologies such as DWDM, ROADM, and line systems. The engineer will work on small-to-medium features, participate in code reviews, and help monitor and triage incidents.
What you will do
- Contributes to solution of straightforward business problems regarding operations, products, services or customers.
- Analyzes information, asks questions and checks for understanding using standard procedures within the job family.
- Establishes relationships and collaborates effectively with own team.
- Collaborates with others on projects and works on small-to-medium features from technical design through completion.
- Applies understanding of the software development lifecycle and how various agile engineering practices can be used in own projects (e.g., requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, acceptance testing).
- Participates in delivery of technical design features with guidance.
- May apply understanding of how related features in a product solves one or more customer needs.
- Writes functional clean code and unit tests with guidance.
- Performs parts of the coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process under supervision.
- Assists in code reviews and addresses code review feedback.
- Executes tests for scale, reliability and velocity within own code.
- Applies depth of knowledge in secure coding principles and reviews others' code for compliance.
- Monitors and triages incident reports and participates in postmortems and potential on-call duties.
- Expert in one component of the codebase.
- Shares knowledge from independent learning with the team.
- Estimates time to complete assignments and communicates status, blockers, and delays to the team.
- Identifies paths to eliminate blockers and meet deadlines when needed.
- Collaborates with team members to share learnings or assist in problem solving/resolution.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelors + 2 years of related experience OR Masters + 0 years of related experience.
- Excellent knowledge of test automation with Python and other automation test tools and methodologies is a must.
- Expertise in Optical Technologies DWDM, ROADM and Line systems is essential.
- Knowledge and testing skill in Optical technologies is must.
- Good understanding of customer deployments, operations and the ability to translate brown field/green field deployments into test strategy with high efficacy.
- Excellent problem solving skills, familiarity with Linux and modern software tools and techniques for development/debugging and solid software design and development skills.
- Experience in test engineering concepts and methodologies including test planning, test case design, test execution and test automation.
- Requires basic knowledge of theories, principles and concepts within a technical discipline; has exposure to current technologies through coursework or internship.
Preferred qualifications
- Industry certification such as CCNA/CCNP/CCIE/JCNA/JCIE will be a plus.
- Strong written, verbal communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Results oriented with a high degree of accountability, dedication and responsibility.
- Typically requires MS/BS in EE/CS combined with 1 - 4 years proven experience.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc. is a worldwide leader in IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions that transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. The company specializes in routing, switching, data center infrastructure, and software-defined networking designed for enterprises of all sizes. Today, Cisco drives major advancements in AI infrastructure, observability, and secure hybrid work platforms.
- Industry
- Networking
- Company size
- 90000+ employees
- Founded
- 1984
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
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President and Chief Product Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief People, Policy & Purpose Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer
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