Principal Software Engineer – Layer 3 Advanced Routing

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Work with cross-functional teams to architect solutions for Access and Edge networks using Layer 3 technologies to enable service and workflow automation, achieve operational efficiency, and enable multi-tenancy.
• Analyze Product Requirements, Customer use-cases to achieve massive scalability, superior resiliency and integrated solutions across Calix cloud, Access, and Edge network elements.
• Innovative solutions to simplify access networks, collapse network layers and hierarchy while integrating Layer 3 unicast and multicast routing, MPLS, Segment/Policy based routing and Virtualization technologies onto Calix platforms.
• Integrate and port commercial protocol Stacks onto embedded Access OS.
• Design/implement Abstraction layer code to integrate merchant silicon (and SDKs) to provide seamless ControlPlane solutions which can be leveraged across different products.
• Write detailed Design specs, conduct design reviews, coding, unit-test in Agile development environment.
• Participate in Design reviews, Architecture discussions, Implementation, Unit-testing, and Maintenance.
• Work with multi-site Development/Architecture team to implement the above.

Qualifications:

• Must have 15+ years of experience in design and development of Routing protocols (IS-IS, OSPF, BGP), MPLS Technologies (LDP, TE, L2VPN, L3VPN).
• Hands-on development experience with Segment Routing (SRV6, SR-MPLS, TI-LFA, EVPN) and well-versed with SR use-cases.
• Must be well versed with IP protocols, Access Lists, Route maps and Policies.
• Must have hands-on development experience with Embedded Networking/Telecom products.
• Very Strong C/C++, Python coding and Debugging skills.
• Thrives in an environment with loosely defined goals, iterates quickly, bringing focus and path forward.
• Development experience in multi-core/multi-threaded environment on Linux.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• BE/BTech/MTech in CS/IS/EE or equivalent.