Staff Software Engineer – Apex Platform for Network Observability and Cybersecurity
VIAVI Solutions2 months ago
Minnetonka, MN, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop the Apex reporting platform for hyperscale, high-availability, cloud-native network monitoring deployments.
- Design and implement complex solutions in a large, mature C++ codebase.
- Model data and tune query performance across Postgres SQL, Parquet, time-series, columnar, and other database technologies.
- Own features end to end, including implementation, testing, and delivery.
- Balance refactoring and in-place fixes while advocating for sound architecture and long-term codebase health.
- Mentor engineers and raise team practices and code quality.
- Use AI-assisted tools for design, code review, refactoring, and testing without sacrificing quality.
- Debug and test complex software while anticipating side effects in legacy code.
- Collaborate with QA and participate in backlog refinement, planning, and delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
- At least 7 years of experience and a record as a top-performing individual contributor.
- Strong C/C++ skills covering algorithm design, data structures, and design patterns.
- Experience with large, complex, or legacy codebases and judgment about when to fix versus refactor.
- Strong grounding in big-data modeling and distributed software design.
- Experience driving software development in an Agile environment and mentoring engineers.
- Experience debugging and testing complex software.
- Comfort using AI coding assistants such as Claude or GitHub Copilot.
- Preferred: experience with Microsoft Visual Studio, Linux, Windows, Docker, SQL, NoSQL, time-series, columnar, and distributed databases.
- Preferred: knowledge of TCP/IP networking, OSI Layer 7 protocols, storage, CPU, memory, networking, acceleration, REST APIs, event streaming, message queues, cloud-native architectures, and AI/LLM-based tools.
Benefits
- 100% on-site role with daily collaboration, hands-on mentorship, access to real-world data, lab environments, and customer use cases.
- Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
About VIAVI Solutions
VIAVI Solutions (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a public company headquartered in Chandler, Arizona that sells network test, monitoring, and service-assurance equipment and software to telecom operators, enterprises, and network builders. It also produces optical security and thin‑film coatings used for currency anti‑counterfeiting and light management in consumer electronics, automotive, defense, and instrumentation. The company traces its lineage to JDSU, from which it was spun out in 2015.