How You Will Contribute As a Software Engineer at Ciena, you will play a key role in developing software for industry‑leading Data Center PON Solutions. You will design and develop software for Ciena’s next generation Data Center Out‑of‑band Management (DCOM) solutions built on Passive Optical Networking (PON) technology targeting AI hyperscalers and neoscalers. Your contributions will focus on enhancing Ciena’s DCOM PON management and control software running on embedded Linux platforms.

Develop the next generation of Routing and Switching software solutions supporting 10Gbps PON network technologies and applications for Layer 2/3 data networking on a wide range of switch and host platforms.

Contribute new features to Ciena’s SAOS embedded PON software and platforms, enabling new customers and markets, and accelerating time to market for Ciena’s Data Center PON products.

Design, implement and test C/C++ and Python software for managing PON network devices.