Meet the Team

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 growing 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. They are the developers and leaders who are passionate about solving sophisticated technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will handle a group of engineers, technical leads and collaborate extensively with other engineering managers across geography.

You will be involved with a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.

Your Impact

The SONiC team in DSE is looking for amazing versatile leaders to build the Next Generation NOS, SONiC, for Datacenter Enterprise customers and Service Providers. You are an experienced leader with a successful track record of leading product teams responsible to design and develop high quality networking products.

Software Development & Integration:Understand design and deployment of SONiC, lead the SONiC solutions test team end to end.Collaborate with hardware teams to enable optimal hardware-software interactions. Ensure solutions work end to end across different flavours of silicon.Own work you're doing schedule and supervise progress of the projects. Ensure SONiC tests are automated and demonstrated heavily in CICD setups.System Design:Work with Technical Leader and other engineering managers to understand how to make Cisco SONiC solution scalable. Ensure team is validating and benchmarking SONiC solution.Collaboration & Engagement:Collaborate with product management and customers to understand use cases, gather requirements, and align work with business objectives.Help in evaluation and adoption of new tools, technologies, and methodologies to accelerate development and testing cycles.Identify issue in a timely manner and ensure quality of the work. Eager to participate in code reviews in Python whenever required.Be a role model of company culture and values.Minimum QualificationsAround 20 years of work experience with 5+ years of hands on management experience. Handled around 10 people.Prior work experience with software data and control plane software, data structure, Linux user space/OS internals is a must.Comfortable with networking technologies such as L2, L3, VLAN, Port Channel, LAG, VXLAN, Segment Routing, BGP, QoS, ACL etc. You have worked on these areas for at least 5 years as a developer.Besides leading the team, you are comfortable going deep into L2 and L3 networking areas and provide inputs to the team whenever vital. Use your domain expertise to participate in technical discussions.Fair understanding of Docker, Containerized environment, Opensource tools, Security vulnerabilities.Good in hiring and retaining top talents across grades. Involved in performance evaluation, salary planning, budgeting and forecasting.Proponent of innovation and process improvements in the team with a focus on improving team productivity.Enjoy leading fast paced, high performance agile development teams. You like leading the team from the front, identify team strengths, build in-house talent and competencies.Excellent written and verbal communications and negotiation skill. Quick learner, self-motivated.Preferred QualificationsWorking knowledge of GitHub, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools.Fair understanding of the network security requirements.Exposure to SONiC or experience working with the SONiC open-source community.Why Cisco

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put – we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.