C/C++ Software Development Engineer

Project Description

Work with a team to develop high performance software supporting modern network application performance management technologies in a fast paced and agile environment where you'll be making meaningful contributions day one.

Responsibilities

• Work with your team to become best in class in quality, innovation, and time to market while creating the next generation of Viavi's Network Performance Management and Diagnostics (NPMD) platform
• • Responsible for ensuring product features are functionally correct, fully validated, and demonstrably meet specifications
• • Apply sound engineering principles for highly maintainable and testable software
• • Develop with an eye towards high performance and data throughput
• • Solve complex problems and implement designs using C/C++
• • Actively contribute ideas for product improvements and solutions
• • Show a passion for continued learning. Stay abreast of new technology and trends
• • Work closely with Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) to facilitate functional software validation

Skills

Must have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• • 3-5 years of relevant work experience
• • Strong skills in C and C++, including algorithm design, data structures, and design patterns
• • Knowledge of networking and TCP/IP stack
• • Packet-level VoIP protocol knowledge
• • A proven ability to initiate and drive forward software development in an Agile development environment
• • A solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• • Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• • Critical thinking and the ability to structure elegant solutions to difficult problems
• • A passion for creating, reusing and maintaining well-structured and architected solutions
• • The ability to deliver high-performance, customer-focused features
• • Experience in debugging and testing new software constructs as well as an ability to predict and prevent negative side-effects when modifying existing or legacy code.

Nice to have

• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio and/or GNU toolchain is a plus
• • Experience with RESTful API creation and consumption
• • Working knowledge of multiple data formats, including XML and JSON
• • Network architectures and what impacts their performance
• • Experience with layer 7 protocols and their inner workings
• • Experience with virtualization and cloud technologies (eg. containers, VMs, Kubernetes, Openstack etc)
• • Experience with high performance network processing frameworks (eg. DPDK, XDP, VPP etc)
• • Experience with modern network interface adapters (Intel, Mellanox, Napatech, Netronome etc)

Languages

English: B2 Upper Intermediate