Infinera

SW Architect

Infinera
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16 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead software requirements analysis and translate business, customer, system, and network-element needs into scalable technical solutions and product architectures.
  • Define and evolve EMS architecture and component designs, including APIs, interfaces, microservices, data flows, containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and cloud-native deployments.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership through development, prototyping, code and design reviews, debugging, performance optimization, and complex root-cause analysis.
  • Build and enhance multi-agent pipelines and agent harnesses supporting coordinated agents, planning, execution, context, tools, memory, orchestration, validation, recovery, observability, and human approval gates.
  • Drive AI-enabled SDLC adoption across requirements, design, coding, review, testing, troubleshooting, defect correction, documentation, and delivery.
  • Lead technology modernization, mentor teams, and collaborate with product, architecture, platform, verification, productization, and network-element stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's engineering degree and 10+ years of experience in software architecture, requirements analysis, design, development, and troubleshooting of large-scale distributed systems.
  • Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, APIs, cloud-native architecture, and related engineering practices.
  • Hands-on experience building multi-agent solutions, agent squads or swarms, and orchestrated pipelines with iterative execution, feedback loops, planning, validation, and execution controls.
  • Experience with agent harness engineering, including context management, tool integration, skills and rules, memory, planning, critic or reviewer patterns, observability, error handling, validation, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms.
  • Experience integrating agentic workflows with source repositories, issue trackers, code reviews, build pipelines, test environments, knowledge bases, and engineering tools while maintaining repeatability, testability, idempotency, security, traceability, and scalability.
  • Preferred qualifications include telecommunications OSS/EMS/NMS experience; knowledge of SNMP, NETCONF/YANG, SFTP, 3GPP interfaces, REST APIs, OpenShift, Kafka, Helm, GitOps, and Kubernetes Operators; and experience with specification-driven development, RAG workflows, knowledge-base creation, automated defect triage and fixing, code migration, CI pipeline analysis, lab-integrated testing, and responsible AI practices.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaDockerHelmJavaKubernetesOpenShiftSpring Boot
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About Infinera

1,001-5,000 employees

Infinera builds optical networking systems and coherent optical engines, plus automation software and services, for telecom carriers, cloud and data center operators, cable/MSOs, and enterprises. The company designs and manufactures advanced optical semiconductors and pluggable modules for metro, long‑haul, and submarine transport networks. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Infinera is now part of Nokia after operating as a NASDAQ‑listed public company.

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