Senior Software / Quality Engineer (C/C++) bei CloudBees Inc

Senior Software / Quality Engineer (C/C++)

About CloudBees

CloudBees provides the leading software delivery platform for enterprises, enabling them to continuously innovate, compete, and win in a world powered by the digital experience. Designed for the world's largest organizations with the most complex requirements, CloudBees enables software development organizations to deliver scalable, compliant, governed, and secure software from the code a developer writes to the people who use it. The platform connects with other best-of-breed tools, improves the developer experience, and enables organizations to bring digital innovation to life continuously, adapt quickly, and unlock business outcomes that create market leaders and disruptors.

CloudBees was founded in 2010 and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bridgepoint Credit, HSBC, Golub Capital, Delta-v Capital, Matrix Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Visit www.cloudbees.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook

Position Description

CloudBees CDRO is a product which spans technologies ranging from distributed systems, clustering, databases, multi-thread processing, complex scheduling and much more.

CloudBees, the leader in CI/CD and the company behind Jenkins, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (C++), to join our industry leading CloudBees Software Acceleration and CDRO team.

CloudBees Build Acceleration is a build and test acceleration platform for Make-based, Ninja-based, and Visual Studio build environments that intelligently and automatically parallelizes software tasks across clusters of physical or cloud CPUs to dramatically lower build and test cycle times. CloudBees Build Acceleration reduces software build times by distributing the build over a large cluster of inexpensive servers. By using a dependency management system, CloudBees Build Acceleration identifies and fixes problems in real time that would break traditional parallel builds. CloudBees Build Acceleration seamlessly plugs into existing software development environments and includes web-based management and reporting tools.

This person will be responsible for maintaining, enhancing and running QE automation for CDRO and Accelerator product., 

The CloudBees team places high value on software quality. It is expected that the person works with Software leads and Quality Engineers within the team to ensure that the software is tested end to end.    

Desired Skills and Experience

Essential Skills

• Deep knowledge of C/C++ (5+ years)
• Strong familiarity with shell scripting as well as well-rounded experience programming in various languages and domains
• Good familiarity with GNU Make and other building tools such as Ninja; experience with AOSP and/or Yocto is a plus
• Self-motivated and driven personality
• Ability to operate independently and ask questions when stuck
• Knowledge of SQL and experience working with mainstream databases (one of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
• Familiarity with HTTP, REST, HTML, JSON, and similar web-based development technologies, and with building complex multi-tier parallel distributed systems that communicate with them (such as the backend of complex websites)
• Experience with building, maintaining and scaling large scale distributed systems
• Strong skills writing high-performance, multi-threaded, efficient and maintainable code
• Experience with UI & API test automation tools, particularly in Java stack (e.g. RoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, Selenium, Playwright, API testing).
• Working experience with databases setup and managing such as Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science is highly preferred

Nice to haves

• Working knowledge of other languages, such as Java, Groovy, Tcl, Python, Go
• Ability to build and debug third party software with custom patches
• Experience using public (or private) cloud provider platforms like GCP or AWS, Docker containers
• Knowledge of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a plus
• Experience with analyzing thread safety and race conditions, parallelism, synchronization, and locking, including between threads, between machines in a cluster, and in the database
• Familiarity with Linux kernel module programming a bonus
• Experience with SSL/TLS certificates, protocols and libraries (especially OpenSSL) also a bonus
• Previous experience with bash scripting and other command line interfaces on Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Responsibilities

• Work as an independent contributor collaborating with a support teams and test engineers
• Collaborate with external stakeholders, support and engineering teams in order to establish priorities 
• Work closely with the Support team, and communicate with customer for troubleshooting
• Ability to work with customers directly on urgent issues

What You’ll Get

• Highly competitive benefits and vacation package
• Ability to work for one of the fastest growing companies with some of the most talented people in the industry
• Team outings
• Fun, Hardworking, and Casual Environment
• Endless Growth Opportunities

At CloudBees, we truly believe that the more diverse we are, the better we serve our customers.  A global community like Jenkins demands a global focus from CloudBees. Organizations with greater diversity—gender, racial, ethnic, and global—are stronger partners to their customers.  Whether by creating more innovative products, or better understanding our worldwide customers, or establishing a stronger cross-section of cultural leadership skills, diversity strengthens all aspects of the CloudBees organization.

In the technology industry, diversity creates a competitive advantage.  CloudBees customers demand technologies from us that solve their software development, and therefore their business problems, so that they can better serve their own customers.  CloudBees attributes much of its success to its worldwide work force and commitment to global diversity, which opens our proprietary software to innovative ideas from anywhere. Along the way, we have witnessed firsthand how employees, partners, and customers with diverse perspectives and experiences contribute to creative problem solving and better solutions for our customers and their businesses.