We are offering a position in the Rucio development team at CERN. Rucio is an open-source scientific data management system responsible to manage the data of some of the biggest scientific data producers in the world. Experiments such as ATLAS, CMS, Belle II, DUNE, and many others rely on Rucio, which manages world-wide distributed data in the multi exa-byte range. The work on this post will be carried out in the context of the European "RI-SCALE Unlocking RI potential with Scalable AI and Data" project, where Rucio will be used to manage the vast datasets of multiple European research infrastructures. You will join the Rucio core development team at CERN, a dedicated group of software engineers and computer scientists who work on the frontier of scientific big-data. You will contribute to the design and evolution of the system and collaborate with a variety of people at CERN and the diverse open-source community of Rucio.
Your responsibilities
- Evolve the storage interaction workflows of Rucio in order to integrate new RI-SCALE research infrastructures.
- Evolve the authentication and authorisation workflows of Rucio.
- Design and develop features for the Rucio catalogue component.
- Participate in DevOps tasks in operating a Rucio deployment for the project.
- Participate in the evolution of the Rucio architecture at large.
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Your profile
- Experience with distributed storage technologies.
- Experience in the design and development of large distributed data management systems.
- Experience with SQL-based databases.
- Proven experience in software design, architecture, and continuous integration.
Skills
- Excellent skills in the Python programming language.
- Strong knowledge in distributed systems, computer networks, databases.
- Knowledge of the scientific computing domain and deployments via Kubernetes is an advantage.
- Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.
Eligibility criteria:
- You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
- You have a professional background in Computer Science, Software Engineering (or a related field) and have either:
- a Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
- or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
- You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.