Leader, Software Engineering

Meet the Team:

Cisco Smart Spaces and Wireless Engineering is pioneering the future of smart workspaces, IoT sensor connectivity, and cloud-managed infrastructure. We bridge networking hardware and cloud intelligence, enabling location analytics, energy optimization, asset tracking, and partner ecosystem integrations for enterprise customers globally.

Your Impact:

As a Senior Manager, you will lead, inspire, and grow high-performing software development and sustaining engineering teams in Bangalore.

• Provide technical and people leadership across key initiatives, including Catalyst/Meraki BLE firmware, CMX sustaining, Native Connect, and partner IoT integrations.
• Partner closely with Product Management (PLM), Platform Architecture, and QA to align technical roadmaps, sprint execution, and multi-topology release commitments.
• Champion engineering excellence, code quality, test automation (CI/CD, CoverageHub), and platform security (EU CRA standards).
• Foster talent development, mentoring senior engineers and driving career growth within the Bangalore engineering center.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in networking, embedded systems, or cloud/IoT platforms, with 4+ years in engineering management.
• Proven track record leading multi-disciplinary software teams delivering enterprise-grade networking/wireless software.
• Strong background in C/C++, Linux/RTOS embedded systems, microservices, gRPC, and cloud integration protocols (MQTT, REST).
• Deep understanding of wireless/IoT protocols (BLE, Wi-Fi 6E/7/8, UWB, Zigbee) is a strong plus.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership, stakeholder communication, and distributed team collaboration skills.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience collaborating with teams across different time zones
• Hanson experience leading SmartSpaces Infrastructure engineering

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.

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.

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