Senior Software Engineer, Limited Term (Remote)

Our Team
We are a team of educators, scientists, and software engineers who believe that the scientific breakthroughs of tomorrow will be driven by transformative technology built today. Agave is a reimagined open source cloud platform integrating scientific code, data, and computational resources with collaborative technologies in a secure, interoperable environment. The Agave Platform enables research teams to work more collaboratively within their existing environments and achieve reproducible results faster.

Who You Are
Our consumers are at the forefront of open science research. You are excited to work on technology that will shape the ways in which research is conducted. You are a proactive, self-starter with DevOps experience in OpenStack, Kubernetes, and commercial cloud platforms that wants to join our distributed team. You are interested in building an open, Science-as-a-Service platform designed to run in hybrid cloud environments. You are eager to join a team of software engineers, educators, and domain scientists in a shared mission to scale, integrate and innovate the most challenging scientific workflows so researchers are empowered to be more productive and creative at their science. A successful candidate will have excellent communication and problem-solving skills with affinity for hands-on learning in a remote work capacity.

This is an exempt Administrator position scheduled to work full-time for up to (2) two years, may be extended based on continued funding. This position is eligible for participation in our health and welfare benefits and our supplemental retirement plan.

• Build and support highly available, secure, and scalable web services for the Agave Platform
• Build and support client SDK and tooling for the Agave Platform.
• Build and maintain systems for logging, monitoring, and reporting
• Provide operational support for production platform services.
• Build and deploy CI/CD processes
• Interact and collaborate with researchers nationally and internationally to build a better platform for science

• 5-7 years of experience as a full stack web developer
• Programming experience with java, php, python or other server-side programming languages.
• Programming experience building and consuming micro-services.
• Familiarity with software and security development life-cycles

• Experience with Linux containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity, cri-o)
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies
• Programming experience with nodejs or golang
• Experience building event-driven systems.
• Experience with real time stream processing frameworks
• Experience writing publications for journals and presenting work at conferences.

• Experience with Linux server administration
• Familiarity with high performance computing
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and Keras.

Applicants for Staff and Administrator positions must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Chapman University does not sponsor applicants for Staff and Administrator positions for work visas.

The offer of employment is contingent upon satisfactory completion and outcomes of a criminal background screening and returning to the Office of Human Resources a signed original acceptance of the Chapman University Agreement to Arbitrate.

This is a Limited Term 2-Year Contract Appointment with opportunity to extend contingent on grant funding.