Python/Golang Developer- Kubernetes

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• What will you do at Ciena

  We are looking for highly motivated and talented software engineers to join Blue Planet platform team, responsible for building performant, reliable, and maintainable platform services and tools in a large, polyglot, distributed environment.

  Responsibilities

  Develop micro-services and tools that provide common support for scalable and highly available software system Work closely with design teams to support their use of the platform to deliver complete solutions to customers Participate in all phases of an agile development cycle plan, design, implement, review, test, deploy, document, and training Troubleshoot and resolve customer issues Strive to make continuous improvement

  Collaboration with stakeholders

  Working collaboratively with Product Owner, Product Line Management (PLM), Product Verification, development teams, customer support teams, documentation team, etc.

  Areas of impact

  Blue Planet is based on a modern software architecture that leverages open-source technologies, model-driven templates and container-based micro-services. Blue Planet facilitates the evolution toward more efficient, modernized network operations and software-defined programmability to accelerate the delivery of on-demand services, reduce costs, and enable a path to increased network autonomy. As a member of platform team, you will provide services, tools and manage system complexity to help Blue Planet solution teams to deliver value more easily and in a maintainable way.

  Experience

  • Bachelors/Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, algorithms and design patterns
  • Proficient in languages such as Java/Python/GoLang
  • Experience with distributed, highly-available, horizontally scalable systems running at large scale
  • Interest and ability to quickly learn and ramp-up on new languages and technologies
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills

  Desirable knowledge or experience (a plus)

  • Database technology including Postgres distributed SQL, graph databases, etc. Distributed high throughput messaging system such as Apache Kafka
  • Good knowledge of OS and software security
  • Cloud environment (e.g. AWS, OpenStack, etc.)

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