Senior Software Engineer

Job Term: Full-Time

The Opportunity

Picarro seeks skilled Senior Software Engineers to join a team that is designing and building the next generation of integrated systems that incorporate our laser-based gas sensors. These systems incorporate a variety of different technologies and are used in a number of different industries. We endeavor to deliver trusted, actionable data to end users, helping them to make critical operational decisions in their facilities based on unambiguous information from Picarro integrated systems.

We seek passionate software engineers to design, develop, document, and maintain software solutions. The responsibilities associated with the position include developing high quality and maintainable software. Our ideal candidates are familiar with developing distributed control applications that comply with coding standards and technical design. Our culture encourages you to create innovative solutions and gives you the opportunity to work with some of the best and brightest in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Design high-quality, clean, efficient, and maintainable code, following best practices and coding standards, for complex analytical instrumentation
• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development cycle
• Partner with the project, scientific, and engineering teams
• Collaborate with other software developers to create, maintain, and develop test cases for various applications deployed in a Linux-based target environment
• Collaborate with other developers to create internal and external software interfaces for gRPC microservice applications
• Integrate with CI/CD pipelines to enable automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment of software applications
• Troubleshoot and debug software defects and production issues, providing timely resolutions and root cause analysis

Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or a related major is required
• 9+ yrs. of hands-on coding experience in Python as well as one or more of the following: C++ (C++17 preferred), C#, Java, Go.
• Experience designing software for instrumentation
• Experience with one or more distributed messaging platforms such as gRPC, ZeroMQ, MQTT, OMG DDS, REST API
• Familiarity with asynchronous communication patterns such as Publish/Subscribe
• Experience with creating multi-threaded and/or coroutine based applications
• Experience with UNIX/Linux systems, including package management (Debian/Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to debug complex issues and propose effective solutions
• Experience using software engineering tools including Github and JIRA
• Must have a visa to travel to the US and be willing to spend at least the first two months at Picarro headquarters in Santa Clara, CA

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with object-oriented design patterns including interface abstraction and polymorphism
• Experience with one or more interface definition languages, such as ProtoBuf or OMG IDL. Experience with build processes including integrated code generation
• Experience building applications with Python AsyncIO
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB
• Solid familiarity with networking including IPv4/IPv6 fundamentals, routing/NAT, mDNS/service discovery
• Knowledge of Docker based containers and Kubernetes based orchestration systems

About Picarro

Picarro, Inc. is the world's leading producer of greenhouse gas and optical stable isotope instruments, which are used in a wide variety of scientific and industrial applications, including: atmospheric science, air quality, greenhouse gas measurements, gas leak detection, food safety, hydrology, ecology, and more. The company's products are all designed and manufactured at Picarro's Santa Clara, California headquarters and exported to countries worldwide. Picarro's products are based on dozens of patents related to cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) technology. Picarro's solutions are unparalleled in their precision, ease of use, portability, and reliability.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, gender identity, social orientation, nor on the basis of disability. Posted positions are not open to third party recruiters/agencies and unsolicited resume submissions will be considered free referrals.

If you are an individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact Picarro, Inc. at [email protected] for assistance.