Software Engineer: Silicon One (C++/Networking Protocols) - 4+ Years

Meet the Team

Cisco Silicon One™ is Cisco’s revolutionary silicon architecture powering the next generation of web-scale, cloud, service provider, enterprise, and AI networking infrastructure. The Silicon One Software Customer Engineering team works closely with Silicon One architecture, SDK, platform software, and Network Operating System (NOS) teams, as well as strategic customers and ecosystem partners, to enable, integrate, optimize, support, and deploy Silicon One software solutions across a broad range of networking environments.

Our team serves as a critical bridge between silicon development, software engineering, and real-world deployments, helping accelerate feature adoption, optimize system performance, resolve complex customer challenges, and ensure successful integration of Silicon One technologies in production networks ranging from hyperscale cloud environments to large-scale AI/ML infrastructure.

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Technical Leader to help drive software integration, feature enablement, performance optimization, customer support, and customer adoption of Silicon One solutions across Cisco and open-source networking ecosystems.

Your Impact

As a Software Engineer on the Silicon One software team, you will contribute to the design, development, integration, and optimization of software solutions across Cisco and open-source Network Operating Systems.

You will:

- Triage customer issues, optimize software features supporting modern cloud, data center, and AI/ML networking deployments.

- Collaborate with Silicon One architecture, SDK, platform software, and NOS teams to deliver scalable, high-performance networking solutions.

- Participate in software integration efforts involving L2/L3 forwarding, ACL, QoS, traffic management, congestion management, and load-balancing technologies.

- Troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve software and networking issues in development, qualification, and production environments.

- Support solution validation, deployment planning, performance tuning, and feature adoption activities.

- Contribute to automation, validation, testing, and continuous integration frameworks to improve software quality and deployment efficiency.

- Participate in design reviews and technical planning activities.