Senior Software Engineer

About the position

As a software consultant, you will be interacting with software engineers, network/system operations staff, and network/system architects to keep our service relevant in the marketplace in the fast-moving and quickly evolving networking industry. Proactive technology research, software development, problem-solving mindset, developing next-generation network architecture using modern networking technology (e.g., Software Networking).

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience including design, development, debugging, and support, building scalable software systems and software infrastructure.
• Experience with programming languages (Java, Python, Go) and software debugging tools (jdb, JMX)
• In-depth understanding of scale-out infrastructure, distributed systems, and web services technologies.
• Experienced in designing and applying data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented concepts to solve challenging problems
• Experience working with ODL, REST, RESTCONF and RPC services and other client/server models
• Building and delivering mission-critical, 24x7 production quality software systems
• Transforming the monolithic software systems into micro service-oriented software systems
• Experience in Linux environments with Linux automation scripting and/or software development (Ansible, Python, Bash)
• Experience with Linux networking & virtualization environments/technologies (KVM, containers) and container scheduling/management platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Open Source tools development, implementation, and/or collaboration experience
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to analyze and implement enhancements to existing applications/code
• Strong written & verbal communication skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using source code tracking and version control systems (Stash/GIT/GitLab)
• Experience in an agile development environment as part of a team of engineers, developers, and testers
• Experienced in integrating and developing messaging infrastructures (Kafka, thrift, proto-buf)
• Experience with open-source logging and reporting solutions (Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Splunk)
• Database development experience (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, SQL/NoSQL)
• Open API (REST/RESTCONF/NETCONF) and data modeling (YANG) verification and development
• New technology validation, prototyping, and integration experience
• Multi-vendor system integration experience
• Developing applications using microservice architecture
• High Availability and distributed software architecture development & design
• ODL (Open-Day-Light) controller internals and experience in developing ODL applications
• Understanding of SDN architecture and technology (control plane, data plane, management plane)