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About this Senior Software Engineer role at VIAVI Solutions

VIAVI Solutions · Onsite · Chennai, IND

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:

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About VIAVI Solutions

VIAVI empowers Service Providers and IT organizations to manage the network lifecycle for complex 5G and Fiber networks with intuitive instruments, systems and technologies; and our expertise in light management and optical coatings help protect the world's bank notes from counterfeiters, enhance the colors you see, and enable advanced technology such as 3D sensing. We are a team of thought leaders who have the freedom to support and innovate and look for new effective and efficient solutions for our customers.

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