Job Description

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 individuals passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. Were a technology company that leads with our humanity driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

What will you do at Ciena?

We are looking for highly motivated and talented software engineers to join Blue Planet platform team, responsible for building performant, reliable, and maintainable platform services and tools in a large, polyglot, distributed environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop micro-services and tools that provide common support for scalable and highly available software system
• Work closely with design teams to support their use of the platform to deliver complete solutions to customers
• Participate in all phases of an agile development cycle - plan, design, implement, review, test, deploy, document, and training
• Troubleshoot and resolve customer issues
• Strive to make continuous improvement

Collaboration with stakeholders

Working collaboratively with Product Owner, Product Line Management (PLM), Product Verification, development teams, customer support teams, documentation team, etc.

Areas of impact

Blue Planet is based on a modern software architecture that leverages open-source technologies, model-driven templates and container-based micro-services. Blue Planet facilitates the evolution toward more efficient, modernized network operations and software-defined programmability to accelerate the delivery of on-demand services, reduce costs, and enable a path to increased network autonomy. As a member of platform team, you will provide services, tools and manage system complexity to help Blue Planet solution teams to deliver value more easily and in a maintainable way.

Experience

• Bachelors/Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, algorithms and design patterns
• 2+ years of experience in languages such as Java/Python/GoLang
• Experience with distributed, highly-available, horizontally scalable systems running at large scale
• Interest and ability to quickly learn and ramp-up on new languages and technologies
• Good communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable knowledge or experience (a plus)

• Database technology including Cassandra, distributed SQL, graph databases, etc.
• Distributed high throughput messaging system such as Apache Kafka
• Good knowledge of OS and software security
• Cloud environment (e.g. AWS, OpenStack, etc.)
• Customer support

At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, please advise Ciena of any accommodation measures you may require.

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