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Staff Software Engineer

Seqera· Engineering
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Barcelona (Spain), Spain (Remote)Full-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to join Seqera's Unified Compute team, owning low-level systems powering scientific workloads in the cloud. Focus areas include Fusion (FUSE filesystem), Fusion Snapshots, Ignite, and Sched, with adjacent services Groundswell and Cloudinfo. Hands-on senior role with architectural influence.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own low-level systems across Fusion, Fusion Snapshots, Ignite, and Sched
  • Write reliable, well-tested code primarily in Go and C, with Rust and JVM (Groovy/Java, Micronaut) where appropriate
  • Work close to the OS: FUSE filesystems, Linux namespaces, CRIU checkpoint/restore, process supervision, signal handling, static musl builds
  • Tackle multi-cloud orchestration and scheduling: provider abstractions (AWS, Azure, GCP), instance selection, autoscaling, spot-instance fault tolerance, durable async queues
  • Drive performance engineering — chunked I/O, multi-level caching, buffer pools, bandwidth management
  • Set technical direction and raise the standard for testing, observability, and operational excellence
  • Mentor teammates and help onboard new engineers

Qualifications

  • Deep experience building production-grade systems software, with technical ownership at Staff level
  • Strong in Go and comfortable in C (or C++), close to the operating system
  • Solid Linux internals — filesystems, namespaces, processes, signals, networking — and comfortable debugging at that level
  • Built distributed and/or cloud-native systems and understand failure modes across multiple clouds
  • Write simple, well-structured, well-tested code; optimize for clarity and debuggability
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and driving work independently
  • Willing to use AI in daily work

Skills

Required:GoCLinux internalsdistributed systems / cloud-native

Benefits

  • Time off: 23 days for vacations per year, 3 days given by Seqera in December, and national/public holidays according to location
  • Equity
  • Private health insurance
  • Private life insurance
  • Home office allowance (valued over 1,000 USD)
  • Subscription to Oliva, Mental Health App
  • Learning and development budget per year (1,000 USD)
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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