Senior /Lead Software Engineer - C/Linux/YANG/NETCONF

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Why Ciena:

· We are big proponents of life-work integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work.

· We believe an inclusive, diverse and barrier-free work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.

· We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and offer a variety of paid family leave programs.

· We are committed to employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities.

· We know that financial security is important. We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU’s (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.

· We realize time away to recharge is non-negotiable. We offer flexible paid time off!

· Great work deserves recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance.

We’re looking for an experienced, motivated, and talented individual interested in progressing their career in data driven north bound interfaces like CLI/REST/NETCONF/gRPC using YANG data model, while learning to leverage the disruption taking place with SDN, NFV and virtualized routing systems.

How You will Contribute:

• Develop advance features based on YANG data model and web based technologies.
• Author and contribute in software design, development, validation, and documentation to deliver high quality, functionally excellent products.
• Contribute to integration with enabling technologies including third party software, existing platform and hardware capabilities.

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• · Initiative – You’re a self-starter who works with limited direction and is committed to delivering against aggressive deadlines.
• · Agility – you are readily able to make key decisions and manage competing and ever-changing account priorities and largely driven by the product development lifecycle.
• · Communication expertise – the ability to influence and tailor your message and ideas in both English and French to the audience to ensure understanding and consensus.
• · The flexibility to work independently and as part of a broader team – you thrive in a multi-disciplinary team environment, but are comfortable working independently as required.
• · Relationship builder – with a proven ability to influence, you’re able to get work done through others.
• · A commitment to innovation – you keep abreast of the market and competitive developments and are always keen to formulate new ideas and problem solve.

The Must Haves:

• Strong C programming skills with strong debugging and trouble shooting skills over VxWorks/Linux platform.
• Experience with YANG data model, REST API, gRPC, NetConf and different data formats is desirable.
• Experience with python and open-source technology is added advantage.
• Relevant software development experience including product deliveries of advanced networking software systems
• Demonstrable self-initiative and “can do” attitude to find and implement the best solutions for customers.

Education and Experience:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, effectively able to collaborate with multiple teams across geographically diverse areas.
• Effectively able to work independently with little hands-on supervision delivering to aggressive timelines.
• 5-8 years of relevant industry experience.

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