This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of platform projects from start to finish, including project scoping, task breakdown, execution, and delivery.

• Extract subsystems from a C++/Python monolithic architecture while maintaining clean interfaces.

• Develop pathways for submitting and scheduling workloads on both cloud and on-premises clusters.

• Transition components of the file format towards an open, text-based structure.

• Research, prototype, evaluate, and suggest solutions for open platform challenges related to parallel simulation jobs in mixed on-premises and cloud GPU environments.

• Manage cross-team dependencies and effectively communicate how projects integrate with other engineering efforts.

• Enhance tests, interfaces, and feedback mechanisms.

• Achieve delivery of scoped projects within the first three months, larger cross-team initiatives by the sixth month, and fully productionized platform projects by the twelfth month.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in professional software engineering, with a proven track record of taking ownership of projects from inception to delivery across team boundaries.

• Proficient in C++ with a strong background in building production systems; also comfortable working with Python.

• Practical experience with distributed or parallel systems, including job scheduling, workload orchestration, cluster or cloud computing, and fault-tolerant services.

• Demonstrated ability to incrementally improve a large, long-standing codebase: through refactoring, API design, or module extraction while ensuring existing users remain unaffected.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity; skilled in researching options, evaluating trade-offs, and providing clear recommendations.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience in fostering teammate development through code reviews, documentation, and collaborative programming.