Senior Software Engineer

Must have

• 10+ years in software engineering, including design of complex distributed backend or data platforms.
• Deep expertise in database design, schema evolution, query optimization, transactions, indexing, data security and data lifecycle management.
• Strong experience with SQL and at least one of: document, key-value, graph or vector databases.
• Strong experience designing search solutions for complex metadata and dataset discovery.
• Proven experience with AWS-based backend systems, storage, compute and scalable service design.
• Strong programming skills in Python and, ideally, C#.
• Experience building secure multi-user systems with authentication, authorization and auditability.
• Strong architectural thinking, system decomposition and performance optimization skills.

Strong plus

• Experience with microscopy image metadata, OME concepts, image file formats, tiled or multiresolution image handling or scientific imaging pipelines.
• Experience with S3-compatible object storage, MinIO, hybrid deployments and on-prem/cloud synchronization.
• Experience with caching, asynchronous workflows, data pipelines and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with access control integration, Keycloak, LDAP/AD or customer-specific identity systems.
• Experience with SaaS, Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform (IoC)

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design scalable storage, indexing, search, caching and data-transfer mechanisms for large scientific datasets in hybrid edge/on-prem/cloud environments.
• Design and implement database-centric services, APIs and backend components for secure and high-performance multi-user access.
• Drive the migration of legacy product-specific data-management functionality into reusable platform services.
• Collaborate with image analysis, web UI, instrument software and domain experts to define robust interfaces and end-to-end workflows.
• Contribute to engineering standards, CI/CD, observability, reliability and secure software delivery for cloud-based and instrument-hosted systems.
• Provide strong technical expertise through architecture analysis and design, hands-on implementation, design and code reviews.