VIAVI Solutions
Senior Software Engineer
- Chennai, IND
- Full-time
- Posted
Skills
Job description
Summary:
About the Role
You'll be a core individual contributor on the Fault Management team, building near-real-time streaming pipelines and intelligent fault-processing capabilities within our AIOps platform. You own module delivery end-to-end — from low-level design through production support — and work with platform architects and PMs to ship high-impact features.
Tech Stack
Java · Spring Boot · Apache Kafka · Kafka Streams · Kafka Connect · Apache Spark
Duties & Responsibilities:
Job Description – Senior Software Engineer
Responsibilities
Module Ownership
•Own one or more fault-management modules end-to-end
•Write LLD documents for every feature request and present for team review
•Drive technical decisions within your module — velocity vs. reliability trade-offs
Near-Real-Time Pipelines
•Build event-driven pipelines with Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect for fault ingestion, correlation, and enrichment
•Implement Spark batch and micro-batch jobs for large-scale fault analytics
•Meet SLA targets for latency, throughput, and fault tolerance
Backend Engineering
•Build cloud-native microservices using Java and Spring Boot
•Design idempotent consumers, DLQs, and back-pressure for exactly-once / at-least-once semantics
Agentic Development
•Use LLM-assisted coding and AI pair-programming tools to accelerate delivery
•Integrate ML-powered anomaly detection and RCA into fault workflows
•Prototype new AI capabilities that improve automated fault resolution rates
Debugging & Incident Support
•Diagnose issues across Kafka brokers, Streams topologies, Spark executors, and Spring Boot services
•Primary escalation point for critical production incidents in your module
•Write runbooks and post-mortems to prevent repeat incidents
Quality & Operational Excellence
•Unit, integration, and contract tests; peer code reviews
•Observability — metrics, tracing, structured logging; on-call rotation
•Contribute to CI/CD and infra-as-code improvements
Required Skills
•6 years of hands-on backend / data engineering experience
•Production Kafka systems — topics, partitioning, consumer groups, offset management
•Kafka Streams DSL and Processor API; stateful and stateless topologies
•Kafka Connect — source and sink connectors, lifecycle management
•Apache Spark — Structured Streaming, DataFrames, Spark SQL at scale
•Java 11 and Spring Boot 3.x — REST, security, reactive patterns
•Deep debugging across multi-threaded, distributed JVM systems
•LLD/HLD documentation; distributed systems principles (CAP theorem, eventual consistency)
Good to Have
•AIOps or observability platform experience
•Agentic development workflows or LLM-integrated toolchains
•Telecom fault management standards (TM Forum, IETF YANG/NETCONF) or OSS/BSS domain knowledge
•Kubernetes, service meshes, cloud-native deployments (AWS / Azure / GCP)
Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements: