Software Engineer - Microservices, Go & Python

Summary:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 90+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customer’s most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers. And, we are also at the forefront of optical security – we bend light to develop and deliver optical solutions that provide security to the world’s currencies and safety and performance applications for consumer electronics and spectrometry.

We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected – at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Job Overview:

VIAVI is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Platform team in Bangalore and contribute to the development of modern web applications and containerized/microservices solutions for VIAVI Test Center. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain features that directly support customer use cases, working with Go, Python, and cloud-native technologies.

You will collaborate in a distributed, Agile environment, applying strong programming fundamentals to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software. This role provides an excellent opportunity to grow technical expertise, gain hands-on experience in cloud-native development, and make a meaningful impact on VIAVI’s next-generation testing solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

Feature Development

• Design, develop, and maintain features with a strong understanding of customer use cases.
• Estimate tasks and deliver high-quality, reliable software in collaboration with the team.
  
  

Quality & Debugging

• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across the product lifecycle with quick turnaround times.
• Support quality initiatives by contributing to unit testing, code reviews, and best practices.
  
  

Collaboration & Agile Practices

• Work effectively within a distributed Agile team, ensuring alignment with product and engineering goals.
• Share knowledge and contribute to team-wide engineering excellence.
  
  

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

Job Requirements:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
• Minimum 2 years of professional software development experience.
  
  

Core Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Go (Golang), with additional experience in Python.
• Solid understanding of operating systems concepts, algorithms, and data structures.
• Working knowledge of containers and microservices architectures.
  
  

Development Practices

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and distributed team collaboration.
• Experience with unit testing, code reviews, and programming best practices.
• Ability to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve issues quickly across the product lifecycle.
  
  

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills with the ability to work both independently and within a team.
• Effective time management to handle project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  
  

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AI/ML concepts.