Senior Software Engineer - Cross-Platform Agents & Security

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the software agent team. You will design, develop, and optimize high-performance agents that run across Linux, Unix, and Windows, and across multiple architectures.

You'll work with software engineers, data scientists, and UX/UI engineers to analyze, troubleshoot, and deploy features that provide visibility, security, and management at scale. This role emphasizes experimentation, rapid prototyping, and production-grade delivery in an agile

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of software development experience, or Master's with 4+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with systems programming using C or C++, including multi-threaded and multi-process application development.
• Experience operating system fundamentals, including threads, processes, file systems, networking, and inter-process communication.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex software systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and improve high-performance software agents.
• Develop software that operates across Linux, Unix, and Windows environments and multiple processor architectures.
• Develop and enhance functionality for enforcing network policies on workloads from a central controller.
• Build capabilities that monitor and protect container-based deployments.
• Analyze complex software systems involving interactions between multiple processes and operating system kernels.
• Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, data scientists, UX/UI engineers, technical support engineers, and other cross-functional partners.
• Participate throughout the product development lifecycle, from design and rapid prototyping through production deployment and ongoing improvement.

Skills

C/C++

Systems programming

Multithreaded apps

OS fundamentals

Debugging

Networking concepts

Golang

C/C++ development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Linux

Windows

Job description

Cisco is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the software agent team. You will design, develop, and optimize high-performance agents that run across Linux, Unix, and Windows, and across multiple architectures.

You'll work with software engineers, data scientists, and UX/UI engineers to analyze, troubleshoot, and deploy features that provide visibility, security, and management at scale. This role emphasizes experimentation, rapid prototyping, and production-grade delivery in an agile