Staff Software Engineer

Overview

Calix Cloud and software platforms enable Broadband Service Providers, or BSPs, of all sizes to innovate and transform their businesses. Our BSP customers are empowered to utilize real-time data and insights from Calix platforms to simplify their businesses and deliver experiences that excite their subscribers. This enables BSPs to grow their businesses through increased subscriber acquisition, loyalty, and revenue, thereby increasing the value of their businesses and contributions to their communities.

This is the Calix mission; to enable BSPs of all sizes to simplify, excite and grow.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in software development, with a strong focus on Java/J2EE, GO, Linux, microservices, REST APIs, and high availability systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement innovative solutions: Design, code, and debug complex software systems, continuously enhancing their performance and functionality.
• Solve problems efficiently: Investigate and resolve software-related issues, optimizing performance and providing exceptional user experiences.
• Be an active team member: Engage in discussions, brainstorm ideas, and suggest solutions, shaping the direction of our shared services.
• Develop and integrate REST APIs, ensuring smooth communication between different components.
• Work closely with Cloud product owners to understand, analyze product requirements, provide feedback, and deliver a complete solution.
• Technical leadership of software design in meeting requirements of service stability, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Participate and drive technical discussions within engineering group in all phases of the SDLC: review requirements, produce design documents, participate in peer reviews, produce test plans, support QA team, provide internal training and support TAC team.
• Support test strategy and automation in both end-to-end solution and functional testing.
• Customer facing engineering role in debugging and resolving field issues.
  
  
  

• 10+ years of highly technical, hands-on software engineering experience
• Independent and Self driven and works in a Team.
• Strong, creative problem-solving skills and ability to abstract and share details to create meaningful articulation.
• Ability to drive technical discussions across x-functional teams.
• Proficient in design and implementation of microservices-based, API/Endpoint architectures.
• Strong background in designing and developing event-based / pub-sub workflows & data ingestion solutions. Proficiency and hands on experience with Kafka at scale (or similar) desired.
• Experience in/Knowledge of protocols & technologies for managing home gateways (TR-069/TR-369, TR-98/TR-181), in-home services, monitoring and efficiently curating data from millions of IoT/Wi-Fi devices a plus.
• Good understanding of implementation and deployment of Cloud based solutions (preferably AWS or GCP).
• Strong background in transactional databases and good understanding and experience with no-SQL datastores.
• Expert in Java. Proficiency in other languages like Go, Python, NodeJS/JavaScript a plus.
• Organized and goal-focused, ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in designing batch-based, low latency real-time streaming and event-based data solutions (Kafka, Storm, Spark, Flink, Kinesis or like technologies).
• Organized and goal-focused, ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience building scalable solutions and in choosing the right data store technologies for data analytics (Cassandra, Elastic, Greenplum, Redshift).
• Practical understanding and usage of AWS (or Azure) Cloud platform and services.