Software Engineer

Internet became a reality because of Cisco and its intelligent innovations in WAN engineering over multiple decades.

We are evolving our industry leading service rich SDWAN solution by building integrated multi-cloud and SASE solution for our customers. If you love the challenge of building a highly scalable intelligent distributed system, then please join the party. We are abstracting WAN infrastructure and programmatically building a highly flexible controller-based software defined solution to provide intent based networking. Our solutions provide secure connectivity to user & device from anywhere in the world to their favorite application running in cloud, on premise or as SaaS.

Our SDWAN Platform Crypto Security Engineering team is responsible for a critical surface area in securing the SDWAN fabric that operates globally at a massive scale. You will work on various ground-breaking security technologies in Enterprise Routers connecting cloud infrastructure and applications. You will have the opportunity to work with leading-edge networking and security technologies like IPSec, TLS/dTLS, PQC, and crypto hardware acceleration

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and technical leaders on designing and implementing IPsec solution that aids various deployment modes to on Cisco's routing products.
• Distill complex problems and propose simple, elegant solutions. Be responsible for the performance and results of engineering team.
• Understand & contribute to requirements, write functional & design specifications, showcase technical leadership and drive high quality execution across teams.
• Contribute to product roadmap through innovations & cross-team discussions
• Investigate and resolve complex customer issues. Have empathy and close attention to detail.
• Help raise the qaulity bar to avoid customer issues in an agile and incremental model

• 7+ years or Bachelors, OR 4+ years or Masters in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding, experience building multi-threaded, distributed backend systems.
• 4+ years experience in programming in C/C++/Python, development of algorithms using efficient data structures to come up with optimized code, debugging and troubleshooting under Linux environment.
• Proven experience developing IPsec technologies and data-plane IPsec packet processing.
• Experience with data plane development for various Network Processors, Crypto, Stateful packet processing.
• Experience working extensively with OpenSSL, Intel QAT and IPsec Open Source software.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with OS, Db internals, search, filesystems, inter-process messaging, networking and Security concepts.
• Cloud and container technologies experience is a plus.
• Good knowledge in Network Security domain and deployments highly desirable.

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