Software Development Engineer

Nokia

DCE Engineer collaborating with global ICPs to gather software requirements and enhance product solutions. Involved in defect resolution and customer escalations for optical network systems.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeRichardson • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $88,000 - $163,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GRPCLinuxRTOS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As DCE Engineer, you will be working closely with one of the major global ICPs gathering feature requirements.
Helping to on-board, involve in recovery efforts during a critical outage.
Analyzing logs to isolate faults, determining the root cause, and working towards defect resolution.
You will be part of SW/product release cycle, providing software solutions through product enhancement.
Collaborating with SVT to optimize their test plans & Root Cause Analysis (RCA) discussions as per the ICP use-cases.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum 5+ years’ experience in SW development organization.
Engineering degree or Master from CS, EC with excellent grades from reputed institutes.
Familiar with high demands and fast paced response requirements of the global ICPs.
In depth knowledge of software systems, and operationalization in the hyperscale Data Center environment. Including Agile development, SDN, DevOps, and CI/CD environments.
Excellent design analysis skills, including experience with software modeling, understanding of platform boot-up and device drivers, hardware-software interactions (e.g. interrupt architectures etc) and dependencies, high-availability, software reuse, performance, testability, and extensibility.
Experience in either QNX or Linux RTOS Operating systems is a must.
Deep understanding of optical fiber networking including transponders, OLS, Sub-sea and Pluggable.
In-depth knowledge of optical network systems including L1 layer protocols like OTN, Fiber Channel, Ethernet, SONET/SDH, L0 OADM/DWDM/CWDM/ROADM/FOADM, technologies and Management Interfaces like Netconf, Restconf, gRPC, etc.
Self-Driven and willing to take own initiatives and decision making and ability to perform under pressure.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentAgile developmentSDNDevOpsCI/CDsoftware modelingdevice driversoptical fiber networkingL1 layer protocolsQNX

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem-solvingself-drivendecision makingability to perform under pressure