Big Compute and Cloud Management Developer

Job Summary:

As an engineering member of our big compute and cloud management team, you will contribute to the design and development of next generation technology for high performance computing (HPC) and cloud software.  We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and intelligent software engineer who can translate business needs into highly scalable, maintainable software solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to make a difference in a visible, close-knit team working on a worldwide product.

Make a big impact as part of a global team of experts to optimize the world’s largest computers solving problems that really matter. Altair’s PBS Works™ suite operates between the most demanding applications (e.g., weather prediction, computational fluid dynamics, structural optimization, life sciences, Electronic Design Automation, and Fintech) and the most powerful computers – scheduling the right job at the right time on the right resources – making the computing infrastructure reliable, efficient, scalable, and agile. The suite’s workload and cloud management products allow enterprises to easily share distributed computing resources across geographic boundaries. Altair’s cloud products empower client innovation and decision-making through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization of business and engineering information.

What You Will Do:

Basics:

• Bachelor degree or higher in Computer Science or related
• Strong computer science background with deep understanding of architecture fundamentals. (e.g., architectural/design patterns, data structures)
• Proficiency in one of the programming languages C/C++ or Python or GO
• Experience building highly scalable applications
• Experience in building/developing in a distributed environment (micro services, data driven, async, …)
• Excellent communication (fluency in English) and people skills; excellent time management and organizational skills
• Excellent debugging skills and attention to detail
• Experience working on Linux, basic bash scripting skills

Preferred:

• Knowledge of multiple programming languages
• Experience with parallel/concurrent programming
• Experience with event streaming technologies like Apache kafka and redis streams
• Experience to deploy highly available applications on Kubernetes
• Experience with API development using REST and GraphQL
• Exposure to modern authentication protocols like OAUTH2, OIDC etc.
• Experience with leveraging one of the key cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle)
• Experience of working and building solutions based on container runtimes (Docker, K8s, …)
• Knowledge of cloud provider APIs
• Expertise in one of the major configuration managers (Ansible, Puppet, Saltstack,…)
• Experience with time series databases (ElasticSearch, InfluxDB etc)

How You Will Be Successful:

• Envision the Future
• Communicate Honestly and Broadly
• Seek Technology and Business “Firsts”
• Embrace Diversity and Take Risks