Python Developer

What You’ll Be Doing

• Work closely as part of a large, distributed team of developers, testers, and managers
• Participate in regularly scheduled team conference calls to chip in ideas to drive innovation in our technology, and to communicate project status
• Use of development processes Jira, Confluence, Git, GitLab, and Bitbucket
• Participate in peer-based code and design reviews
• Participate in root cause analysis
• Design, build and document high-quality, extensible software
• Navigate a large code base containing hundreds of modules and millions of lines of code
• Travel when necessary (up to 3%) to collaborate with other teams

About You

• Master’s degree or commensurate experience in computer science, engineering, mathematics, information science (or foreign equivalent) or related field with 3+ years of professional experience progressive, post-academic experience in software design and development or Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of post-baccalaureate experience
• Detailed understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems
• Programming expertise in Python, Bash, and other shell scripting and current C++
• Facility with authoring and deploying Python applications and handling package dependencies in virtual environments
• Programming experience in web applications
• Management, output, error handling and cleanup of processes on Linux and Windows
• Understanding of network protocols and file systems, including parallel file systems
• Programming experience with error handling and reporting
• Programming experience in Java
• Good understanding of object-oriented design principles
• Navigating large, legacy code bases
• Using a distributed version control system such as Git
• Facility with modern IDEs
• Ability to communicate sophisticated technical issues clearly and to present data concisely
• Ability to balance multiple tasks with minimal mentorship

Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, And Experience

• Experience with cluster schedulers such as PBS, LSF, Grid Engine, or SLURM
• Experience with Full Stack Python development and supporting tools
• Understanding of distributed memory parallel programming (MPI) and threading
• Understanding of CPU topologies
• Expertise in physics and mathematics
• Contributions to open-source projects

What we offer?

• Competitive salary and benefits (Lunch Subvention, Holiday Allowance, Medical Care, Sport Card, Life Insurance)
• Extra paid vacation days
• Work on implementations as product producer (Siemens) not a partner company
• Interesting and challenging career path within Siemens
• Support with relocation