Software Engineer

Your responsibilities

Are you an experienced software developer, or a scientist with a masters degree or PhD interested in the challenges offered by computing for High Energy Physics? Do you want to contribute to the software R&D at the heart of LHC data processing?

Join the EP-SFT group at CERN, responsible for developing and maintaining core software packages used by the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator. You will become a core C++ software developer in the team developing the CernVM-FileSystem (CVMFS, https://cernvm.web.cern.ch/fs).

CVMFS is a global, read-only filesystem that specializes in delivering software and helps to enable distributed scientific computing across cloud- and supercomputing sites at a global scale.

In particular, you will:

• Improve the performance and usability of the CVMFS client and publisher
• Work with cloud- and supercomputing facilities to make CVMFS more accessible
• Contribute to the baseline support and maintenance tasks of the project.

Your profile

Skills

• Experience with software version control (e.g. git) and build tooling
• Good C++ knowledge. In particular: STL interfaces and algorithms, parallelism, thread-safety.
• Competencies in systems and network programming (e.g libcurl)
• UNIX knowledge, in particular familiarity with filesystem concepts.

Optional but a plus:

• Experience with container technologies (such as docker)
• Knowledge of the Go language
• Experience with HEP experiments code, their software lifecycle and build tooling.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in STEM (or a related field) and have either:
• a Master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
• or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.

Source: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/744000030164911