Senior Software Engineer - C/CLI/REST/NETCONF/GRPC/YANG

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.

Job Description:

The communications networking industry is undergoing transformative change and Ciena is leading the charge with a fresh wave of innovation uniting optical and packet technologies.  As a trusted partner to over 1,000 customers in 60+ countries, Ciena builds networks that fundamentally changes the way our customers compete

What we’re looking for:

We believe in the power of people. We are a network strategy and technology company that is motivated by making a difference in people lives – their productivity, their creativity, their health and comfort. That’s why our engineers design and implement technologies that allow people to do great things.

We’re looking for an experienced, motivated, and talented individual interested in progressing their career in data driven north bound interfaces like CLI/REST/NETCONF/gRPC, while learning to leverage the disruption taking place with SDN, NFV and virtualized routing systems.

What will you do at Ciena?

• Develop advance features based on YANG data model and web based technologies.
• Author and contribute in software design, development, validation, and documentation to deliver high quality, functionally excellent products.
• Contribute to integration with enabling technologies including third party software, existing platform and hardware capabilities.
• Provide basic status reporting for own work or that of a small team.

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Requirements:

• Strong C programming skills with strong debugging and trouble shooting skills over VxWorks/Linux platform.
• Experience with YANG data model, NetConf, gRPC, REST API, XML, JSON, xquery, protobuf and different data formats is desirable.
• Experience with open white box http://openroadm.org/ is desirable.
• Relevant software development experience including product deliveries of advanced networking software systems
• Experience with modeling of ROADM, OTN, using YANG model is desirable.
• Carrier class product design and delivery experience with optical transport products/switches.
• Demonstrable self-initiative and “can do” attitude to find and implement the best solutions for customers.

Education and Experience:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, effectively able to collaborate with multiple teams across geographically diverse areas.
• Effectively able to work independently with little hands-on supervision delivering to aggressive timelines.

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