Software Engineering Technical Leader | Python,Service provider Networking | 8 to 13 Years | Bangalore

Role overview

Software Engineering Technical Leader | Python,Service provider Networking | 8 to 13 Years | Bangalore at Cisco

You will be responsible for translating network management requirements into scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions while ensuring adherence to architectural standards, coding best practices, and delivery commitments.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Python-based software development, cloud-native technologies, container orchestration, and modern software engineering practices, along with the ability to lead a team of developers and drive end-to-end technical delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture, technical strategy, and multi-release roadmaps; translate product and operational needs into clear designs and implementation plans.
• Design and evolve workflows for service provider network observability and management.
• Improve scalability and performance across services and through concurrency, query optimization, batching and streaming, memory and network efficiency, and rendering improvements.
• Strengthen security, privacy, and resilience throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Influence the team's adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and agentic workflows, while advancing AI-enabled product capabilities.
• Strengthen engineering excellence through code reviews, automated testing, quality metrics, and improvements to CI/CD and release practices across the application suite.

Required qualifications

• Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
• Experience designing and developing Network Management Systems or telecom network management applications.
• Strong hands-on experience in writing concurrent Python code for complex applications .

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Proven technical leadership of complex initiatives from architecture through production, including planning, cross-team coordination, technical reviews, and mentoring.
• Strong full-stack and distributed-systems expertise, with depth in application scalability .
• Experience with service-provider networking and technologies such as IP, MPLS, SR-TE, SRv6, IS-IS, BGP, Ethernet services, or optical transport.
• Experience with databases, messaging systems, and event-driven architectures.

Employment details

• Location: Chennai [India]

About the employer

• Join the Cisco Crosswork Hierarchical Controller team and provide hands-on technical leadership for a product that helps service providers understand, automate, and control complex IP and optical networks.

Additional role details

• Guide capabilities from architecture and implementation through production, translating operator needs into secure, scalable, and reliable software.
• We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead to drive the design, architecture, and development of Network Management System (NMS) solutions for telecom networks.