For the continuous development of our LOFAR telescope, we are looking for a software engineer to strengthen one of our SCRUM teams. LOFAR is a big, modern radio telescope with over 50 antenna fields across Europe. LOFAR provides petabyte-scale amounts of data, and the number of devices it encompasses is within the hundreds of thousands. The software development teams focus their efforts on monitoring and operating our telescopes and making sure the data can be stored, found, retrieved, and processed in one of our archives. The team you would join consists of software engineers to build the monitor and control applications that are close to the hardware of the stations and who automate the full lifecycle of software using CI/CD pipelines.

We need software engineers who help us:

• Building software for a large research facility using Python.
• Improve our relational and/ or time-series database technologies (such as PostgreSQL or Prometheus).
• Apply principles from DevOps, like collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.

Calling all talented software engineers who:

• Know Python-based software for Linux environments.
• Know Docker.
• Experience building instruments or doing development work in Monitor and Control frameworks (Tango-Controls and/ or Grafana is a bonus).
• Like working in a team and connecting to colleagues outside your functional area.

The job applications for this position would likely be open in the summer period this year and we expect to hire one person for the position.