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Research Software Engineer

🇺🇸 United States - Remote

About Scale Computing

Scale Computing is a global business with offices around the world, thousands of customers, and countless applications running on our industry-leading SC//Platform. We enjoy this success because we have made a conscious effort to build this company amazing person by amazing person—could you be the next to join us as the newest Scaler?

About the Role

Our Engineering Team is looking to hire a Software Engineer to join the Innovation Team at Scale Computing. The Research Software Engineer will collaborate closely with the VP of Product Strategy and Innovation to conduct cutting-edge research and develop prototypes that push the boundaries of distributed edge computing. This role offers the opportunity to help shape the future of IT solutions and drive advancements in Scale Computing’s edge computing capabilities. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing functional prototypes and PoCs, conducting research into a wide range of open-source technologies and 3rd party solutions within the broad edge computing ecosystem, and contributing to the innovation of our edge computing products, services, and solutions. 

Projects will span a variety of IT infrastructure hardware and software challenges, clustering and fault tolerance, deployment and management of edge computing applications, including AI/ML, Computer Vision, and IoT. Technologies include server virtualization, software-defined storage, networking, container orchestration including Kubernetes, cloud and edge orchestration and deployment tools including Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Hybrid Cloud, and SaaS API Integrations.

Initial projects will include researching and prototyping enhanced Containers as a Service (CaaS) Kubernetes experience for Scale datacenter and edge on-premesis deployment. Researching Kubernetes integration and infrastructure abstractions such as CSI (Container Storage Interface), CAPI (Kubernetes Cluster API), CPI (Cloud Provider Interface) and CCM (Cloud Controller Manager). Researching and prototyping enhanced use of kvm/qemu/libvirt capabilities such as virt-v2v / libguestfs, hardware passthrough, enhanced guest agent functionality, improved external storage system integration to HypeCore and presenting software defined storage for use by external systems outside the hyperconverged infrastructure as part of broader ecosystem.

We believe in best-ever experiences from the inside out, so we’re looking for an approachable, friendly candidate who will love their co-workers as much as we love them.

Great candidates will look like this:

  • Enjoy collaborative design, development, and testings
  • Is highly motivated and experienced
  • Enjoys sharing knowledge and learning from everyone on the team
  • Able to work independently on difficult problems and collaborate within a dynamic team environment
  • Thrive in a methodical and relaxed work atmosphere that prioritizes systematic task completion
  • Works at a steady pace while actively contributing to an environment receptive to innovation and process enhancements
  • Is quality-oriented and possesses high standards across the software development lifecycle

Responsibilities

  • Research and Innovation: Along with VP of Product Strategy, collaborate with cross-functional teams to explore new technologies, integrations, and methodologies that will help Scale Computing drive continuous innovation in the edge computing market.
  • Prototype Development: Design and develop various software prototypes and PoCs to validate emerging market requirements and technical feasibility to support future product development and innovation. 
  • Document and Demonstrate: Document prototype testing results, performance metrics, and research findings. Demonstrate and Communicate technical concepts effectively to team members and stakeholders both within Scale Computing and outside customers, prospects and partners as applicable.
  • Productization: Collaborate with Scale Computing Product teams to refine prototype designs and assist with the transition of prototypes to our production engineering teams as applicable. 

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or demonstrable experience.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on containerization or virtualization infrastructure. 
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, and Bash.
  • Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration. 
  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) related to Kubernetes and “cloud-native” application deployment. 

Other useful skills/experience

  • Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Ansible.
  • Knowledge of distributed systems and DevOps practices.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment processes. 

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive, based on experience
  • Stock options
  • Competitive Health Plan including Medical (HDHP & PPO options), Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, & Life Insurance options
  • PTO & paid Company holidays
  • 401k Plan with match

If you've reached this point in the job description and feel you're still not sure if you should apply...Just do it! We know there are no perfect applicants. You may not have 100% of all those bullets listed above- and that's okay. If you're feeling like you're not going to fit in with our teams - you'll be surprised. We're all working towards the same goal at Scale Computing. Whoever you are and whatever background you bring, we encourage you to submit an application if it's a role you can be passionate about doing every day.

Scale Computing was founded on the belief that transparency and collaboration create a culture of ownership, success, and empowerment; more empowered employees are more productive employees. At Scale Computing, we build empowerment through diversity and our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Collaboration, Success, and Fun. We believe everyone has an important role. We look for highly motivated, smart, fun people to fill those roles. If working with other amazing people to help us build a wildly successful company sounds like fun to you, we'd love to hear from you.

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