Job Description

Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day. This means that when you digitally interact in your world - picking up the phone, streaming video, texting a friend or loved one - your interactions are being enabled by Ciena technologies. Ciena makes your social / entertainment / business existence REAL.

We are looking for stellar test software engineer to work on the team developing and testing the Blue Planet Orchestration platform services and software development kit (SDK). You will:

• Write software that exercises the capabilities exposed by the SDK libraries, APIs, and micro-services and stresses them in step with our most demanding customers
• Improve overall test-coverage and quality measurement driving toward faster and more confident software delivery
• Develop test harnesses, simulations, and automation infrastructure
• Use software engineering knowledge to find ways to break software and expose vulnerabilities to race conditions, negative behaviors, and security flaws
• Create large scale system tests to drive improvements in scalability, performance, and high-availability
• Work closely with the Blue Planet solution teams, internal developers, and customers to support their use of the platform to deliver complete solutions to customers
• Participate in all phases of an agile development cycle

Areas of impact:

• Improved quality and customer satisfaction for all Blue Planet solutions
• Greater efficiency for the development team by finding problems earlier and in controlled environments
• Simpler and faster SDK development

Required experience and skills:

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or equivalent field
• Coding experience - preferably in languages such as Python / Java / GoLang
• Innate skill and enjoyment from debugging, reverse engineering, and breaking things
• Use of web services and RESTful APIs
• Experience working on Linux operating system environment
• Interest and ability to quickly learn and ramp-up on new languages and technologies
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

Desirable knowledge or experience:

• Knowledge of test methodologies and experience authoring test plans
• Agile development methodologies and tools
• Distributed, Highly-available systems running at large scale
• Network element protocols (e.g., TL1, CLI, SNMP, NETCONF)
• Distributed platforms which use Kafka, Elasticsearch, Cassandra or similar systems
• Cloud environments (e.g., Docker, AWS, Openstack etc.,)
• Database technologies including distributed SQL and non-relational
• Basic understanding of networking including L2/L3 Switching & Routing

About Ciena
Ciena is a network strategy and technology company with a passion to provide an experience, to you and our customers that is as rewarding as the outcome. We attract the best and brightest- those with outstanding talent, motivation, and the right attitude to contribute to our success. Our culture balances our openness and informality with professionalism and trust and is built on the foundation of our core values: Customer First, Integrity, Velocity, Innovation, and Outstanding People.

Ciena enables everyone to have a voice and a network that supports them while on the journey to discovering their passion and purpose. We trust each individual to do what they can to reach their full potential and make an impact on the business, whenever, wherever they are in the world. With Cienas highly innovative, forward-thinking business practices, we reward people for pushing the boundaries. Unlock your potential at Ciena!

Being You @ Ciena
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we want to foster an environment that values and respects all individuals strengths, perspectives, ideas, and ability to meet the needs of our customers globally. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status or any other category protected by applicable law. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination. Ciena is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, you should advise Ciena in a timely fashion of the specific accommodation measures required for you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner.

We do not charge any fee for employment and the same applies to the Recruitment Partners we work with. Additionally, we do not ask for any refundable security deposit to be paid in bank accounts for employment purposes. We request candidates to be cautious of misleading communications and not pay any fee/ deposit to individuals/ agencies/ employment portals on the pretext of attending Cienas interview process or seeking employment with us.