Hybrid Routing/IP Software Engineer

Posted 3 months ago

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About the role

  • Routing/IP Software Engineer developing embedded software for advanced Layer 2 and IP services at Ciena. Collaborating across software development lifecycle with Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate across all stages of the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, functional specification, design, coding, integration, verification, and support
  • Engineer software in C/C++ for advanced Layer 2, MPLS, and IP services, including drivers, APIs, and dataplane applications
  • Design and develop software for real-time embedded Linux environments
  • Contribute to new product releases, networking features, and enhancements of existing software
  • Manage personal project tasks, including effort estimation, tracking, monitoring, reporting, and addressing potential issues impacting functionality or timelines
  • Apply Agile methodologies to software engineering processes
  • Develop carrier-grade software using test-driven development, automated unit testing, and comprehensive integration testing
  • Reduce backlog defects and troubleshoot issues, collaborating with hardware, software, and system engineers to identify root causes

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
  • 5+ years of experience in embedded software development within networking or telecommunications environments
  • Proficiency in C programming language
  • Expertise in developing software for multi-processor, concurrent systems operating in embedded Linux environments
  • Experience in real-time embedded software development for dataplane technologies: Hardware-based Layer 2/3 forwarding engines (ASICs, NPUs, FPGAs, TCAMs)
  • End-to-end slow path forwarding and packet exception handling
  • MPLS, BGP, and Segment Routing solutions
  • IPv4, IPv6, E-VPN, and IP-VPN
  • Embedded fast protection mechanisms like BFD, BGP-PIC, and FRR
  • Traffic management, metering, ACLs
  • Strong knowledge of mutual exclusion, synchronization, interrupt handling, and inter-process communication

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
  • vacation time
  • compliance with all applicable laws regarding Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence

Job title

Routing/IP Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$81,600 - CA$130,400 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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