Software Engineer

About Cisco

Cisco offers an industry-leading portfolio of technology innovations. With networking, security, collaboration, cloud management, and more, we help to securely connect industries and communities.

About the job

If you are interested in the network automation space and want to be part of a development team - look no further! Cisco are hiring software engineer, who search for an opportunity to build and craft a brand-new product with a focus on our execution engine backend.

Role And Responsibilities

As a member of our engineering team, you will do development of the central functionality of the product - the engine, where the actual automation work is taking place. It is built around existing components that will need to be extended and adapted into the new context. Together with the staff and lead you´ll increase the scope of our code base.

The platform lead is responsible for installation, upgrade, and system management functions. The responsibility also covers integrating and maintaining shared components such as logging, AAA, and monitoring as well as selecting new components as needed.

To meet future product requirements the platform lead, together with the architect team, is accountable to maintain the architecture and introduce new / updated components to the solution.

The Team

• Our larger team is an experienced network automation organization, the makers of Cisco NSO and belong to the Cisco Crosswork portfolio, and we just started working on a product that will help operators automate their networks more efficiently.
• We are encouraged by agile methodologies and always seek to improve how we do things on every level of organization. Our product portfolio is revolutionizing network automation on a global scale and are pushing organizations, network equipment vendors and ourselves forward with higher and higher demands on speed and usability. Our customers are representing nationwide and global networks using our automation software in multiple layers of the infrastructure, from low level transport to compound service offerings for consumers and businesses.

Who You Are

• You probably have had one or two different roles as software developer.
• You are self-educating and self-motivated through curiosity, a passion for exploring and developing code.
• You show and like having ownership in parts of our total code base and platform
• You are actively contributing with ideas on how to continuously improve the product
• Our minimum requirements for this role
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or the equivalent
• Minimum 10+ years of experience as a developer
• Strong programming skills (Golang, python, bash)
• Knowledge of Go templating, common frameworks, and tools
• Knowledge on microservices, Kubernetes, docker
• Experience of working in Linux/Unix environments
• Experience with GIT, shell scripting

Desired skills

• Understanding of modern databases
• Experience with workflow systems
• Experience with microservices, Kubernetes
• Experience with network automation and/or a curiosity about networking
• experience working with a team
• written and verbal communication skills
• attention to detail

Why Cisco

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to bring the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren’t afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.

We are leaders with vision, tech enthusiasts, pop culture connoisseurs, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.

Recently we have won the #1 employer in the World award.

We Are Cisco.