Software Engineer - C Programming - Routing/Switching Protocols

Gurgaon, Haryana
Permanent
Full-time

21 days ago

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.How You Will Contribute:Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIENA) designs intelligent software for optical networks, enabling our customers to change the way they compete. Our platform delivers agility, scale, automation, collaboration, and adaptive intelligence to network operators, so they can transform their businesses and be more responsive to their customers’ needs. We pioneered optical networking, and now we are leading the industry in software-centric optical solutions. Learn more at www.ciena.com.
About the role:We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Routing & Switching Software Developer who will be responsible for developing software subsystems for managing Carrier Ethernet transport equipment. This includes defining system requirements, designing software architectures, writing code, testing, debugging, and validating. You will work closely with other team members on all aspects of software development including requirements analysis, design, implementation, test, and documentation. You will also participate in technical reviews and provide guidance to junior engineers as needed.The Must Haves:

Preferred working experience in NBI Infra [CLI, SNMP, gRPC/gNMI Stack/Infra, Netconf Stack/Infra (ConfD, Yuma…)], Security and Network services Infra (DHCP, DHCP relay, NTP, DNS, Radius, Tacacs, SSH, dot1x), Intercommunication infra (Protobuf, ZMQ, Redis, Mongo).
Working experience of docker, container based micro service application development in C and Python language.
Good to have working experience or exposure of System design, High availability (HA), Performance monitoring, Scalability and Inter process communication (IPC), Redis, Mongo DBs.
Fluent in writing Yang models for different features/protocols.
Unix and Python scripting; Engineering make experience using Perforce and Git.
Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrable self-initiative and “can do” attitude to find and implement the best solutions.
Team oriented; strong inter-personal skills and ability to understand customers’ needs, expectations and perspective.
Strong commitment to product excellence and quality.
Develop test plan based on FS, requirements and other external materials.
Review project documents thoroughly.

Education and Experience:

BE / B.Tech. (EE/CS) Degree
About 4+ years of relevant experience in telecommunications, C, CLI, gNMI/gRPC, Netconf/Yang, Network Management and Security Protocols.
Preferred working experience in Carrier Ethernet, Virtualization, GitCopilot
Experience with Ixia traffic generators and on IxNetwork is desirable.

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