Routing/IP Software Engineer 4 – Datapath

Routing/IP Software Engineer 4 – Datapath

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• Eight (8) years of experience in the job offered or in a Computer Systems Engineers/Architects-related occupation
• 8 years of experience in C/C++ software development in Linux
• Leading design and development of Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding plane applications
• Broadcom Ethernet Switching and Routing chipsets, Layer 2 and Layer 3 packet processing pipelines
• Debugging Broadcom external SDK APIs, hardware registers and tables
• Writing new Broadcom internal SDK driver code
• Debugging complex forwarding plane router issues in large network topologies
• Remote application debugging using GDB
• Test tools including Ixia IxExplorer, or Wireshark/tcpdump
• Code maintenance tools Git and Bitbucket
• Agile software development and project planning using JIRA

Responsibilities

• Develop the next generation of Routing and Switching software solutions supporting Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• Design and implement embedded software (written in C and running over Linux) to configure HW components and manage HW resources
• Provide basic project management for individual projects or that of a small team
• Provide expertise and direction instrumental to the definition and design of new architectures and technologies
• Participate in various phases of product development cycle – product definition, design, planning, implementation and test
• Analyze product requirements and customer use cases, proposing software architectures for both current and next-generation hardware platforms
• Prototype and evaluate alternative solutions on target hardware platforms
• Deliver detailed architecture, functional specifications and technical design documents
• Support developed features through product verification and customer introduction
• Provide training to field support personnel
• Contribute new features to Ciena’s Service-Aware Operating System (SAOS) embedded software platform
• Expand SAOS support with new platforms in the Ciena Routing & Switching portfolio
• Accelerate time to market for Routing & Switching Portfolio products
• Redesign and implement Resource Management infrastructure for next generation IP routers
• Work in Software Defined Network architectures leveraging technologies such as yocto, docker containers, Google Protocol Buffers, and Intel DPDK libraries

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.