Software Engineer
Ciena
LinuxSwitching
Routing/IP Software Engineer
Ciena
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ottawa • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$81,600 - CA$130,400 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Linux
About the role
- 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
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Hard skills
CC++real-time embedded software developmenttest-driven developmentautomated unit testingintegration testingmulti-processor systemsdataplane technologiestraffic managementinter-process communication
Soft skills
collaborationeffort estimationtrackingmonitoringreportingtroubleshootingproblem-solvingcommunicationtime managementadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering
