Software Engineer - Connectivity (m/f/d)

Description

Help us build world-class software. We’re looking for an experienced software engineer who has built scalable, highly available, and secure systems. Connectivity is a core part of our product to provide industrial assets with an on-demand virtual network to our Cloud resources. It relies on a Gateway device that runs an IoT application maintained by SDA.

Responsibilities

The Connectivity team is looking for a Software Engineer to build key features, backend cloud services, and an on-premise application. Here's what you'll do:

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to define our product vision and develop impactful end-user features.

• Design scalable distributed architecture for managing the state of connections between devices.

• Tackle challenges related to high-availability and observability of application services in Linux and enterprise Windows environments.

• Implement reliable DevOps pipelines for on-premise software updates.

• Breakdown highly secure enterprise networks with diverse security layers of firewalls and proxies.

• Debug the compatibility of VPN protocols within the constraints and requirements of secure enterprise networks.

• Work with an event-driven backbone on AWS.

We offer

• An AWS partnership that offers a great learning experience and personal growth.

• A mission no less than to work at the forefront of technology to improve the productivity of mankind.

• A fast-scaling global deep tech company environment where your area of responsibility grows with the company.

• Impact on next-level real-time control systems for industrial automation, robotics, and motion control.

• Opportunity to build a fully automated global B2B SaaS application.

• Collaboration with engineering teams of our technology partners (e.g. VMware, Bosch Rexroth, AWS) on joint, new offerings.

• A competitive salary, based on a fixed compensation and an equity stock option program.

• A permanent full-time position with Flexible Time Off Policy.

• Flexibility in working hours and time to work from home.

• Flat hierarchies and short decision paths.

• A team of colleagues loving recreation and exercise – annual international events. We play the long game!

Basic Qualifications

• Academic degree in Computer Engineering (or equivalent).

• Extensive experience with the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, pair programming, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

• Professional experience designing and architecting new and existing systems, with a strong understanding of design patterns, reliability, and scaling.

• Comprehensive background in low-level programming languages (e.g., C/C++), operating systems, and computer networks.

• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and database systems.

• Excellent communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in our technology stack: Python backend, Go apps, DynamoDB, and diverse AWS services – deployment with CloudFormation and Terraform.

• Proficiency with the Linux IP stack (e.g., iproute2, iptables, nftables) and/or its Windows counterparts.

• Experience in enhancing system observability, quality, and latency.

• An event-first mindset and expertise in implementing ACID 2.0 functions.

About us

Software Defined Automation is an industrial deep-tech software company that enables Manufacturing-as-Code through the creation of completely new degrees of freedom for the automated configuration, operation, maintenance, and continuous change of production plants. We have set ourselves a great mission, targeting the resource efficiency of one-third of the global value creation and energy consumption. Software Defined Automation is the enabler for AI-based self-optimizing production, thereby reaching the next technological innovation step function in productivity for the world.
For this new world of Software Defined Automation, we build a team that masters both Cloud as well as real-time shop floor operations technology. Join our team with your high energy-driven nature, interest in industrial manufacturing, and motivation to push the boundaries from the cloud all the way to all moving things on the shop floor!