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The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is going through a massive transformation to build the next generation infrastructure to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads and continuously increasing internet users and application. We are uniquely positioned to capture that market transition. This team builds products by harnessing the potential of open-source technologies while pushing the boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture.
You will be leading a team of engineers who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies. You will be part of a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.
An experienced leader who is curious and a problem solver. You love to learn and grow, and lead a diverse team in an environment that is constantly evolving. You have the aptitude to learn information quickly and use resources to research and resolve issues. You are willing and able to work with multi-disciplinary, multicultural, and geographically dispersed teams. This is the role for you if you consider yourself a leader and a technologist at heart, and come with:
As a leader for RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access)/QoS (Quality of Service) Engineering team, you'll lead an agile team engaged in the design, development, automation and execution of tests for RDMA/QoS related functionalities on fixed and distributed Cisco 8000 platforms using SONiC network operating system. The feature sets include Queuing, Policers, WRED, PFC, ECN etc.
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field with 15 + years of experience in network engineering or software engineering.Demonstrable programming experience with C, C++ and/or Python.Background in working within Networking and Networking Technologies.Experience with Linux or other like network operating systems. Experience managing and leading engineering managers, teams of software engineers.
Preferred Qualifications:
Exposure to network operating systems, preferably SONiC.Masters +12 years of related experience, or PhD +8 years of related experience.Knowledge of control & data plane technologies including L2, L3, VXLAN.Experience with RDMA, HPC networks.Knowledge of RoCE and InfiniBand protocols.Experience leading teams with a focus on Quality of Service (QOS)Hands on experience with GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tool.
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