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Location

Paris | France

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Job description

Level of qualifications required : Graduate degree or equivalent

Fonction : Temporary scientific engineer

Context

Software Heritage is a universal software source code archive project, whose aim is to recover, preserve for the very long term and share all publicly available source code, together with its development history (e.g., as stored in version control systems). The Software Heritage archive already contains over 17 billion unique source files and 3.6 billion commits, retrieved from over 266 million software development projects. The Software Heritage initiative, hosted by the Inria Foundation, is an entirely free software (FOSS) and non-profit project.

The Software Heritage team is made up of 14 people, including 8 technical staff (4 developers and 4 sysadmins).
Autonomy, transparency and consultation are at the heart of our values (the project is free and open source).

Assignment

We are looking for a senior back-end developer to join our development team and work on the following areas:

• design and develop new Software Heritage functionalities according to the project roadmap and specifications provided by the management team
• contribute to the development of software components linked to research projects based on the exploitation of data in the Software Heritage archive (big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity...)
• participate in the application maintenance of Software Heritage components (backend and frontend)
• maintain a sound code base using state-of-the-art software development best practices (DVCS, continuous integration, unit testing, refactoring, documentation, code review, etc.).

Main activities

• software development for Software Heritage, mainly in Python
• requirements analysis and design of software solutions in collaboration with project stakeholders
• documentation, code review, testing and integration
• active participation in team life
• interaction with relevant Open Source communities and Software Heritage partners

Skills

• Handling of large databases (SQL/NoSQL)
• Working knowledge of distributed software architectures
• Mastery of continuous integration tools (versioning, testing, etc.)

Knowledge and experience of the following will be considered an asset:

• Big Data knowledge
• apis GraphQL development
• Notions of user research (UX) and UI design
• Container technologies (e.g. docker)
• Distributed scheduling technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.)

Benefits package

• Partial reimbursement of public transport costs
• Leave: 7 weeks of annual leave + 10 extra days off due to RTT (statutory reduction in working hours) + possibility of exceptional leave (sick children, moving home, etc.)
• Possibility of teleworking (after 6 months of employment) and flexible organization of working hours
• Professional equipment available (videoconferencing, loan of computer equipment, etc.)
• Social, cultural and sports events and activities
• Access to vocational training
• Social security coverage

Remuneration

Depending on diploma and professional experience

Warning : you must enter your e-mail address in order to save your application to Inria. Applications must be submitted online on the Inria website. Processing of applications sent from other channels is not guaranteed.

Instruction to apply

CV and cover letter

Defence Security :
This position is likely to be situated in a restricted area (ZRR), as defined in Decree No. 2011-1425 relating to the protection of national scientific and technical potential (PPST).Authorisation to enter an area is granted by the director of the unit, following a favourable Ministerial decision, as defined in the decree of 3 July 2012 relating to the PPST. An unfavourable Ministerial decision in respect of a position situated in a ZRR would result in the cancellation of the appointment.

Recruitment Policy :
As part of its diversity policy, all Inria positions are accessible to people with disabilities.

The ideal candidate will have experience of participating in existing FOSS projects, in whatever capacity (developer, community organizer, technical writer, etc.). We expect self-organization and autonomy skills commensurate with the candidate's experience. Good web development practices should be well known or mastered, particularly in the context of open source software and continuous integration.

The following skills are expected:

• Good knowledge of Python and its ecosystem
• Good knowledge of GNU/Linux systems
• REST and microservices architecture design principles
• Good level of English (written and spoken)
• Good interpersonal and communication skills

About Inria

Inria is the French national research institute dedicated to digital science and technology. It employs 2,600 people. Its 200 agile project teams, generally run jointly with academic partners, include more than 3,500 scientists and engineers working to meet the challenges of digital technology, often at the interface with other disciplines. The Institute also employs numerous talents in over forty different professions. 900 research support staff contribute to the preparation and development of scientific and entrepreneurial projects that have a worldwide impact.

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