Staff Software Engineer – PON Software

This position is based in Bangalore, India.

Calix is looking for a Staff Engineer to work in PON software product development. They will be part of our Intelligent Access PON software group.

Responsibilities and Duties:
• Design and implement PON infrastructure and protocol software for high-end carrier access switching products for Internet infrastructure.
• Work with cross-functional teams ranging from PON and Ethernet switching and routing software, subscriber management for Triple Play services, performance monitoring to network management to build, integrate, unit test, and support software modules within a large-scale system.
• Draft high-level and detailed design documentation for new features and capabilities
• Propose and implement built-in diagnostics and test scripts to help reliability and supportability.
• Work with product management and solutions engineering to write software functional specifications and integration documents.
• Participate and support in fixing issues arising from customer sites.
• Analyze system scalability, interworking issues, and perform root cause analysis of system issues.
• The candidate is expected to demonstrate a deep sense of product ownership with a strong focus on customer satisfaction.

Qualifications:
• 10+ years of experience in software development in the networking/telecom industry with BS/MS in CS / CE / EE.
• Knowledge of IP protocols, VLANs, Ethernet switching and PON is a must.
• Hands-on experience with PON software development is a must, with experience in ICTP, OMCI, EPON, or DOCSIS.
• A good understanding of switching data path technologies, high availability, Linux shared memory primitives and multi-thread/multi-process environment, IPFIX, and logging mechanisms is necessary.
• Experience with open-source products with Python, C/C++ is necessary.
• Experience with Broadcom/Merchant silicon chipset SDK experience is highly desired.
• Excellent analytical, integration, and debugging skills are necessary.
• Knowledge of scripting in Python and Robot automation framework is desired.
• Experience in hands-on software development in large complex software systems is expected.
• Very Good oral and written communication and multitasking skills are expected