Senior Platform Development Engineer (Linux)

Summary:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions for telecommunications, cloud, enterprises, first responders, military, aerospace, and railway. VIAVI is also a leader in light management technologies for 3D sensing, anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, government and aerospace applications.

We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are passionate about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will work as part of the Platform Team within the Research and Development team on VIAVI’s exciting TeraVM suite of products, which provide world leading solutions for validating cutting edge telecommunications networks. Our solutions offer innovative capabilities of emulating large parts of modern 5G networks, including Core Emulation, Radio Access Network Emulation, Centralized Unit/Distributed Unit Emulation, and even emulation of IP hosts and network applications generating network traffic on emulated User Equipment.

As a member of the Platform Team, you will play a key role in researching and developing solutions to enable rapid development and deployment of multiple products based on common platforms, running in a myriad of exciting environments including VSphere ESXi, KVM, Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Research and development of platform solutions for TeraVM products.

• Collaborating, designing and maintaining scalable and testable solutions.

• Helping tune solutions for maximum performance across a wide range of platforms.

• Delivering continuously in an Agile process.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

• Degree or MSc. in Telecommunications, Computer Science or Engineering.

• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems (5+ years).

• Extensive scripting and automation experience (5+ years).

• Unix shell scripting skills.

• Bash/Python/GOLang.

• Experience using Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack) would be an advantage.

• Experience with Kubernetes/Docker.

• Familiarity with server hardware (e.g., NUMA, PCI would be an advantage).

• Agile development.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

If you have what it takes to push boundaries and seize opportunities, apply to join our team today.