Lead Software Engineer- Routing/Switching

3 days ago

Gurgaon, Haryana, India Ciena Full time US$ 90,000 - US$ 1,20,000 per year

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 is looking for a motivated and talented individual with extensive experience implementing carrier-grade data communications services, while learning to leverage the disruption taking place with SDN, NFV and virtualized routing systems. You will take an experienced and influential role contributing to Transceiver/optics bring-up and associated features, delivering innovative solutions to meet demanding performance, scalability and feature requirements in support of advanced Carrier Ethernet services, focused on service provider, carrier grade capability.

  • Bring-up for various electical/optical/coherent plugs 10G/25G/100G/200G/400G and providing feature support for associated optics diagnostics monitoring
  • Troubleshoot and fix reported issues in XCVR/Optics bringup and DOM areas. Identify root cause, diagnose, debug and deliver robust timely fixes.
  • Provide basic status reporting for own work.

The Must Haves:

  • Strong C programming skills with strong debugging and trouble shooting skills over Linux platform.
  • Hands-on experience in embedded software, Optical Transceiver development
  • Familiarity with hardware/software interaction facets of embedded systems (mainly Transceivers)
  • Experience with Linux, I2C, SPI or MDIO
  • Strong knowledge of data structures and design for embedded systems
  • Excellent trouble shooting, strong problem solving and debugging skills
  • Excellent interpersonal communication and strong verbal and written skills
  • Exposure to traffic generators such as Ixia or Spirent.

The Good to Haves/ Assets:

  • Exposure to end-to-end feature development including CLI, SNMP/Netconf, inter module/thread communication, hardware abstraction layer
  • Knowledge of IP networking stack in Linux & IP routing is a bonus.
  • Hands on experience and good knowledge of Chassis based multi-line card and pizza box architecture.
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