Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for an experienced professional to contribute to the architecture design and implementation of a distributed scientific data platform for microscopy and life-science applications. The platform must support microscopy image data, metadata, search, transformation, storage, transfer and analysis workflows across instruments, user PCs, on-premise deployments and AWS cloud environments. This role requires deep expertise in database-centric system design, scientific data modeling, high-performance data processing and scalable multi-user distributed systems. 

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design scalable storage, indexing, search, caching and data-transfer mechanisms for large scientific datasets in hybrid edge/on-prem/cloud environments. 
• Design and implement database-centric services, APIs and backend components for secure and high-performance multi-user access. 
• Drive the migration of legacy product-specific data-management functionality into reusable platform services. 
• Collaborate with image analysis, web UI, instrument software and domain experts to define robust interfaces and end-to-end workflows. 
• Contribute to engineering standards, CI/CD, observability, reliability and secure software delivery for cloud-based and instrument-hosted systems. 
• Provide strong technical expertise through architecture analysis and design, hands-on implementation, design and code reviews. 

 

Must have 

• 10+ years in software engineering, including design of complex distributed backend or data platforms. 
• Deep expertise in database design, schema evolution, query optimization, transactions, indexing, data security and data lifecycle management. 
• Strong experience with SQL and at least one of: document, key-value, graph or vector databases. 
• Strong experience designing search solutions for complex metadata and dataset discovery. 
• Proven experience with AWS-based backend systems, storage, compute and scalable service design. 
• Strong programming skills in Python and, ideally, C#. 
• Experience building secure multi-user systems with authentication, authorization and auditability. 
• Strong architectural thinking, system decomposition and performance optimization skills. 

Strong plus 

• Experience with microscopy image metadata, OME concepts, image file formats, tiled or multiresolution image handling or scientific imaging pipelines. 
• Experience with S3-compatible object storage, MinIO, hybrid deployments and on-prem/cloud synchronization. 
• Experience with caching, asynchronous workflows, data pipelines and event-driven architectures. 
• Experience with access control integration, Keycloak, LDAP/AD or customer-specific identity systems. 
• Experience with SaaS, Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform (IoC)