Summary:
Plans, designs, develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools. Most companies should be able to match to a specific software development engineer position. Use this position if company does not breakout software development positions such as Software Engineer (Applications) (5141-5146) or Software Engineer (Systems) (5161-5166).Duties & Responsibilities:
Major responsibilities:
- Analyze and understand product requirements, design and develop products for the network test and measurement industry leader.
- Support product quality by fixing product defects both from customer and internal test, writing effective unit tests and maintaining high-quality developer regression tests.
- Effectively investigate and root cause technical issues both within the company’s product and customer’s test environment, collaborating with other engineering teams, support teams and our customer, as necessary.
- Work in an Agile team, collaborating effectively with-in the team, with product owners and with the product management.
- Follow best development practices, conduct highly effective code reviews, and ensure the best quality of code.
- Upfront risk assessment early at the beginning of project and track the identified and new risks during feature progress. Suggest mitigation.
- Sense of urgency in completing tasks without any follow-up and sense of ownership for end deliverables
- No major review bugs in code sent for review and maintain review rate of incoming within a day.
- No breaks and no new issues are introduced in regression due to check-ins
Job requirement:
- BTech/MTech/MS/equivalent in Computer Science/Computer engineering
- 8-12 years’ experience in software development using C/C++ based application development
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Exposure to Agile development methodologies
- Knowledge and experience in service provider/enterprise networking technologies and protocols, such as Routing, data center, TSN or SDN.
- Recent experience developing network protocols and technologies such as OSPFv2, BGP, Time sensitive networking, Timing and Synchronization protocols such as PTP (IEEE1588v2) is preferred.
- Good to have candidates with these experience Java, Golang, Javascript, xml, json, Python
Key wording:
Must: C/C++, Networking protocols
Nice to have: Routing protocols and TSN knowledge
Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:
Skills Required
- BTech/MTech/MS/equivalent in Computer Science/Computer Engineering
- 8-12 years' experience in software development using C/C++
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to work independently
- Knowledge and experience in networking technologies and protocols
- Recent experience with network protocols like OSPFv2 and BGP
- Exposure to Agile development methodologies
VIAVI Solutions Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about VIAVI Solutions and has not been reviewed or approved by VIAVI Solutions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off options are described as generous, including paid time off with flexible scheduling and work-from-home arrangements. Feedback suggests some teams implement unlimited or discretionary PTO and respect balance through flexible start times.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, life, disability, wellness initiatives, annual health exams, and emergency medical coverage for travel. Strong medical allowances and an employee assistance program further reinforce perceived coverage depth.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentive programs are highlighted through variable pay and bonus structures that can augment base pay. Feedback suggests twice-yearly bonuses may occur when company performance supports it.
VIAVI Solutions Insights
What We Do
VIAVI Solutions (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global leader in both network and service enablement and optical security performance products and solutions. Our technologies contribute to the success of a wide range of customers – from the world’s largest mobile operators and governmental entities to enterprise network and application providers to contractors laying the fiber and building the towers that keep us connected








