Senior Software Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer

  

Job Description

   

Within the SAP Solutions engineering group, at SUSE, we provide solutions for customers running business-critical workloads based on SAP systems, simplifying and modernizing their operations with bespoke projects that leverage our long established expertise in this particular field.

Join one of our engineering teams in developing project Trento, an application specifically tailored to complement our “SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Application” operative system, providing the ability to validate, monitor and operate mission-critical SAP HANA databases and the S4/HANA enterprise suite.

Our typical users are SAP system administrators who are responsible for software applications powering huge operations, like global manufacturing, retail and logistics: few minutes of downtime may cause huge losses in revenue; we want to enable them in preventing this from happening.

Expectations

The ideal candidate is a passionate, driven and smart software engineer who takes pride in delivering excellent software, with a wide breadth of skills and some degree of depth in any specialty that can be applied to web application development.

We are looking for a fast learner, able to embrace a diverse and advanced technology stack, knowledgeable on the latest tech trends and best practices, pragmatic yet with an outstanding attention to details.

We will expect you to be:

• very proficient with any of the following:

  • the Elixir programming language and the Erlang/OTP platform;

  • the Javascript programming language and the ReactJS web frontend framework;

  • the Go programming language;

  • the Rust programming language.

• knowledgeable on generic fundamentals about software engineering and distributed systems;

• experienced with open-source software development practices;

• familiar with cloud-native technologies, e.g. Linux containers;

• confident with Git, the UNIX-style Command Line Interface, and other tools for the job;

• fluent in English, both spoken and written.

• a well navigated remote worker, located within maximum 3 hours of distance from the UTC time-zone.

We would also greatly appreciate:

• an established track record of open-source software upstream contributions (strong plus here!);

• familiarity Domain Driven Design and related software design patterns like CQRS/ES.

We do not put any particular emphasis on formal education: what matters most is what you can do, and how you do it.

Scope

You will be part of a world-class engineering team, contributing to the development of one project aimed at operating large-scale cloud, hybrid and bare-metal systems with a very specific and complex purpose: running mission-critical SAP software.

You will be onboarded to contribute to a well established and extensive codebase, participate in daily video-conference team meetings, collaborate with your peers via real-time chat, GitHub and/or other various tools, ultimately presenting your technical achievements to the relevant stakeholders in iterative time boxes.

You will be put on the driver seat and pull your tasks from a never-ending backlog of things to do: you will negotiate t