Ciena Recruitment Drive 2025 | Ciena Hiring Software Engineer

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Company Name
Ciena
Company Website
http://ciena.com/
Job Role
Lead Software Engineer
Job Type
  • Experienced
Job Location
  • Gurugram
Skills
  • C
Education
  • BE/BTech
Branch
  • CS
  • IT
Job will expire on
07 Jul 2025

About Company

  • 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.

Job Overview

  • Ciena is looking for a motivated and talented individual with extensive experience implementing carrier-grade data communications services, while learning to leverage the disruption taking place with SDN, NFV and virtualized routing systems.
  • You will take an experienced and influential role contributing to Transceiver/optics bring-up and associated features, delivering innovative solutions to meet demanding performance, scalability and feature requirements in support of advanced Carrier Ethernet services, focused on service provider, carrier grade capability.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Strong C programming skills with strong debugging and trouble shooting skills over Linux platform.
  • Hands-on experience in embedded software, Optical Transceiver development
  • Familiarity with hardware/software interaction facets of embedded systems (mainly Transceivers)
  • Experience with Linux, I2C, SPI or MDIO
  • Strong knowledge of data structures and design for embedded systems
  • Excellent trouble shooting, strong problem solving and debugging skills
  • Excellent interpersonal communication and strong verbal and written skills
  • Exposure to traffic generators such as Ixia or Spirent.

Job Description

  • Bring-up for various electrical/optical/coherent plugs 10G/25G/100G/200G/400G/800G and providing feature support for associated optics diagnostics monitoring
  • Troubleshoot and fix reported issues in XCVR/Optics bringup and DOM areas. Identify root cause, diagnose, debug and deliver robust timely fixes.
  • Provide basic status reporting for own work.

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