Software Engineer

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Software Engineer (Go & Containers)

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join an international team of developers on the SUSE Multi‑Linux Manager product team.

SUSE Multi‑Linux Manager is an open‑source solution for managing multiple Linux distributions, anywhere and at any scale, used by hundreds of organizations and users around the world.

Focus Areas

In this role, you will create and ship code for SUSE Multi‑Linux Manager and Uyuni (its upstream project).

We Expect You To

- Be a great person to work with: promote teamwork and value mentoring (giving and receiving).

- Drive the future of our code base, working with upstream project communities and influencing design and implementation decisions.

- Work with users to identify problems, turn them into good bug reports, track progress and provide actual solutions and feedback back to users.

- Be productive while at the same time keeping a focus on maintaining high quality standards.

Preferred Experience & Skills

We are looking for passionate engineers who are motivated to make an impact for their team and our customers.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience working as a Software Engineer:

- Solid software engineering skills regarding algorithms, programming paradigms and distributed systems.

- Very good knowledge of Go, its ecosystem (build tools, libraries, debugging techniques) and best practices.

- Advanced experience building, deploying and debugging containers (docker/podman or Kubernetes)

- Good understanding of the Linux operating system, differences between distributions and how to manage them.

- Familiarity with relational databases and schema design, ideally with PostgreSQL.

- Giving and receiving code reviews with the ability to knowledgeably discuss technical alternatives in complex systems.

- Previous participation in open‑source communities, please show us your past contributions.

- Verbal and written proficiency in English language.

The Following Topics Would Be An Advantage

- Some familiarity with front‑end technologies and frameworks, ideally React and TypeScript.

- Some familiarity with Java, its ecosystem (build tools, libraries, debugging techniques) and best practices.

What we offer

- Opportunities to develop your skills and gain hands‑on experience in the open‑source world.

- Participation in regular Hackweeks and workshops at the company, department, and team levels, fostering continuous learning and innovation.

- Paid vacation along with a comprehensive range of country‑specific employee benefits.

Challenge

We might be conducting a coding exercise with you during an interview in order to verify technical skills. This may not be necessary if there is sufficient publicly available evidence of your technical skills in the form of open source contributions.

Please feel encouraged to start contributing to our repositories, in particular Uyuni, uyuni‑tools or salt‑netapi‑client. You can check the list of suitable good first issues available in the Uyuni project, for your inspiration. Your contributions would then be discussed as part of the interview process.

Additional Note

If you are reading this job description and the opportunity sounds interesting to you, but you don’t have one or more of the less critical skills - please don’t hesitate to apply Nobody is perfect, we are all just trying to be the best we can be and we are confident that you can do the same.

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