Bug Coordination Engineer

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Bug Coordination Engineer

Job Description

SUSE is an open source pioneer and market leader in a fast-paced, exciting environment at the forefront of Enterprise Linux, Data Center Management and Cloud Solutions. Our Engineering & Innovation group is looking for a Software Engineer to join an international team of developers working on the SUSE Manager product. SUSE Manager is an open source solution for managing software-defined infrastructures at scale, from bare-metal Linux systems to containers and Kubernetes clusters.

Responsibilities

In this role you will develop bugfixes and coordinate a small team of engineers for SUSE Manager, a web-based systems management solution used by hundreds of organizations across the world.

We expect you to:

• Handle bug report triaging from our SUSE Manager customers, as well as our Uyuni open source community.

• Coordinate the work of a small team of engineers (5-6 members) on rotations of 4 weeks.

• Own and enhance the tools and processes used for bug coordination in our teams.

• Become an expert with our products, and how to debug and fix problems.

• Be a great person to work with: promote teamwork and value mentoring (giving and receiving).

Required Skills

We are looking for passionate engineers who are motivated to make a difference to their team and our customers. The ideal candidate will have previous experience as a software engineer with a background in software security:

• Solid software engineering skills regarding algorithms, programming paradigms and distributed systems.

• Previous professional experience in development using high-level programming languages (ideally Java, Python, Golang or Javascript/TypeScript).

• Good understanding of the Linux operating system, including differences between distributions and knowledge of their management using CLI.

• Ability to give and receive code reviews, while knowledgeably discussing technical alternatives in complex systems.

• Verbal and written English language skills.

Bonus Skills

The following skills are not essential for this role, but will give you an advantage:

• Previous experience coordinating tasks for a small teams of engineers.

• Previous participation in open source communities: please let us know of any contributions you would like to share with us.

Our Offer

• Opportunities to develop your skills and gain hands-on experience in the open source world.

• Participation in regular Hackweeks and workshops at company, department and team level, fostering continuous learning and innovation.

• Paid vacation along with a comprehensive range of country-specific benefits.

Additional Note

If you are reading this job description and the opportunity sounds interesting to you, but you don't have one or more of the required skills - please don't hesitate to apply! Nobody is perfect, we are all just trying to be the best we can be and we are confident that you can do the same.

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