Job Description

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

How You Will Contribute: 

Blue Planet www.blueplanet.com, the software division of Ciena, provides best-in-class intelligent automation software and niche professional services to help clients modernize their IT and network operations. Driven by policy and AI-based insights, Blue Planet delivers the closed-loop automation tools needed to align IT and networking processes—critical to facilitating digital transformation and an adaptive network. 

We are looking for highly motivated and talented software engineers to join Blue Planet platform team, responsible for building performant, reliable, and maintainable platform services and tools in a large, polyglot, distributed environment.

• Develop micro-services and tools that provide common support for scalable and highly available software system
• Participate in all phases of an agile development cycle – plan, design, implement, review, test, deploy, document, and training
• Troubleshoot and resolve customer issues
• Strive to make continuous improvement

Required experience and skills:

• Bachelors/Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Looking for a working professional with 0-1 years of experience.
• Proficient with Golang/Python.
• Proficient with Microservice architecture and Kubernetes
• Good communication and interpersonal skills

Assets: 

• Exposure to AI/ML/NLP/LLM
• Exposure to CI/CD
• Database technology including Postgres or Graph databases, etc.
• Good knowledge of OS and software security
• Cloud environment (e.g. AWS, OpenStack, etc.)
• Customer support.

At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

Ciena is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, please advise Ciena of any accommodation measures you may require.