Senior System Software Engineer

For more than two decades, the company has pioneered visual computing, the art and science of computer graphics. We develop and operate a globally distributed data storage and authentication services based on microservice architecture. We’re looking for a new team member who will help us improve our auth and storage systems by creating new microservices and improving existing ones, along with conducting regression, stress, and performance testing.

Location:
Germany, Munich
Armenia, Remote
Switzerland, Remote
Germany, Remote
UAE, Dubai

Work Conditions:
Full time

Responsibilities:

• Participate in architecture design process of our distributed backend systems
• Maintain and improve existing authentication and authorization microservices, along with developing new ones (OCaml / Rust)
• Connect with customers and provide technical support for APIs and client use cases
• Improve unit and integration tests coverage
• Participate in the code review process

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field
• 5+ years of relevant experience, ideally in the area of system programming
• Experience with programming and debugging skills in Linux environment
• Deep understanding of HTTP and REST or other HTTP-based RPC protocols, e.g., Twirp or gRPC
• Experience with multi-threaded and asynchronous network programming concepts and frameworks (NodeJS, Akka, Tornado, Erlang/OTP, Rust/Tower)
• Strong habit to verify and document your work
• Understanding deployment process and networking in Kubernetes
• Excellent communication skills in verbal and written technical English, with the ability to present the current status and final project deliveries

Ways to Stand Out:

• Hands-on experience with Cassandra or similar databases and a general curiosity about distributed systems and algorithms
• Understanding of modern protocols such as OAuth and OIDC; expertise in Active Directory and LDAP would be a big plus
• Track record of building secure systems that handle sensitive data
• Ability to debug and profile code on Linux: perf, tcpdump / Wireshark, strace, Valgrind, etc
• Understanding functional programming paradigm and static strong type systems (relevant knowledge of Haskell, OCaml, F#, Scala, Rust, etc)