Distributed Systems Software Engineer

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leading provider of solutions for the design, simulation, and manufacture of products across many different industries. Formula 1 cars, skyscrapers, ships, space exploration vehicles, and many of the objects we see in our daily lives are being conceived and manufactured using our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.


Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility

o As a member of the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Engineering team, you will help design, develop, and evolve next-generation HPC and cloud software. You'll work within a close-knit, globally distributed team on a widely deployed product, delivering capabilities that improve performance, reliability, and usability at scale. Your contributions will help optimize some of the world's most powerful computing environments, enabling customers to solve complex, high-impact problems.

• Additional objectives of the position

o Reliability/Operations: improve observability (metrics/logs/traces), create runbooks, participate in on-call/incident reviews (if applicable).

o Security: threat modeling, dependency hygiene, vulnerability remediation, secure coding reviews.

o Release ownership: feature flagging, backward compatibility, release notes.

o Open-source/compliance: manage third-party dependencies, licensing review support, upstream contributions (when relevant).

o Customer/field engagement: reproduce and diagnose complex customer issues; provide performance tuning guidance.

o Team enablement: mentoring junior engineers, leading internal tech talks, improving developer tooling and build times.

• Details of very specific job tasks and functions

o Translate business and customer needs into clear, testable software requirements, user stories, and technical designs.

o Design forward-looking solutions by anticipating technology trends in HPC, cloud, networking, and distributed systems.

o Implement robust software that is secure, stable, maintainable, and extensible; apply engineering best practices and design patterns.

o Build automated tests (unit, integration, system, performance) to maximize coverage and prevent regressions; contribute to CI/CD quality gates.

o Profile and optimize critical paths (CPU, memory, I/O, network) to improve performance and scalability in large-scale deployments.

o Follow the defined Agile process (planning, refinement, estimation, execution) and deliver high-quality increments on schedule.

o Review code and technical artifacts, providing actionable feedback and ensuring adherence to coding, security, and quality standards.

o Participate actively in architecture/design discussions, proposing alternatives and assessing trade-offs (performance, complexity, cost, risk).

o Collaborate effectively across teams and locations (engineering, product, QA, DevOps/SRE, support) to deliver end-to-end outcomes.

o Document designs, operational procedures, and user-facing behavior to ensure clarity, maintainability, and supportability. collaborate effectively across teams and locations

Qualifications:

• Bachelors/Masters of Computer Science


• 10+ years of technical experience


• 10+ years of industry experience


• Required knowledge, skills, or expertise

o Proficiency in C/C++ and Python for Linux based application development

o Experience writing code optimized for scalability and performance

o Working knowledge of bash scripting

o Strong debugging skills using tools such as GDB and Valgrind

o Experience designing multi process or multi threaded applications

o Solid computer science fundamentals with a deep understanding of system and architecture concepts

o Hands on experience with AI enabled development techniques to enhance productivity and accelerate delivery

• Preferred / Nice to Have Skills

o Windows application development experience

o Proficiency in the Go programming language

o Experience with client/server architecture development

o API development experience using REST and GraphQL

o Familiarity with modern authentication protocols such as OAuth2 and OpenID Connect (OIDC)

o Experience building and deploying solutions using container runtimes (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

o Proven ability to deploy and manage highly available applications on Kubernetes

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.


Why us?

Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!


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You'll Benefit From
Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here:
The pay range for this position is 129,600 - 233,300 annually with a target incentive of 5-10 of the base salary. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.

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