Senior Software Engineer

Ciena • Atlanta, GA

333d • $85,900 - $137,100

About The Position

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact. As a Senior Software Engineer, WaveLogic Modem Software Development, you’ll be responsible for developing the next generation of optical transport and switching software solutions supporting Layer 1/2 networking on a wide range of host platforms. You will design and implement embedded software (written in C and running over Linux) to configure ASIC/hardware components and manage hardware resources, to support data path requirements for specific transport and Switching applications. You’ll be working with both local and remote teams and provide basic project management for your own work and/or that of a small team, including effort estimation, project tracking, and status reporting. You’ll play an active role in various phases of the product development cycle – product definition, design, planning, implementation, and testing. You will review product requirements and customer use cases. Your expertise will be used to prototype and evaluate alternative solutions on target hardware platforms and to deliver detailed functional specification and technical design documents for embedded software architectures and components. You’ll support developed features through product verification and customer introduction, playing a key role in training the field support personnel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in embedded software development role in a networking or telecommunications environment.
• Minimum 3 years of experience building applications using C/C++ as programming language.
• Experience with BSP, Security, and board bring-up.
• Hands on experience with the Linux kernel drivers and user space drivers.
• Good knowledge of embedded systems, Linux Operating System, mutual exclusion, synchronization, interrupt handling, inter-process communication, etc.
• Familiarity with datacom & telecom concepts such as DWDM, OTN, Ethernet, TCP/IP.
• Strong hands-on debug skills using tools like GDB, Valgrind etc.
• Excellent verbal and technical writing skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing the embedded systems using micro service architecture on real time operating systems.
• Ability to understand CPU Hardware architectures, Hardware Functional Specifications and Hardware Timing Diagrams.
• Linux as a software development environment.
• Exposure to CLI, NETCONF/YANG.
• Design and development tools such as: Git, Eclipse, JIRA, Confluence, GDB, Yocto etc.
• YANG modeling language and toolchains.
• Scripting experience, Python, Go, BASH.

Responsibilities

• Develop the next generation of optical transport and switching software solutions supporting Layer 1/2 networking.
• Design and implement embedded software to configure ASIC/hardware components and manage hardware resources.
• Provide basic project management for your own work and/or that of a small team, including effort estimation, project tracking, and status reporting.
• Participate in various phases of the product development cycle – product definition, design, planning, implementation, and testing.
• Review product requirements and customer use cases.
• Prototype and evaluate alternative solutions on target hardware platforms.
• Deliver detailed functional specification and technical design documents for embedded software architectures and components.
• Support developed features through product verification and customer introduction.
• Train field support personnel.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Participation in 401(K) (USA) & DCPP (Canada) with company matching.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation time.
• Compliance with all applicable laws regarding Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree