Senior Software Engineer - System Integrator Python (f/m/d)

We are currently looking for an experienced Python developer with a background in networking and distributed computing to join one of our specialised R&D teams in Nuremberg, Berlin or remotely in Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Austria, Belgium or UK.

Key responsibilities:

• As a member of the product integration team you develop software that builds bridges between the Exasol core database and other products.
• You create connectors and plug-ins that enable communication between Exasol and a 3rd party product
• You develop test tooling that helps integration testing Exasol
• The software you write is in the great majority Open Source Software, so you will get the opportunity to interact with our OSS community
• You write tutorials and user guides for the software you created as integral part of providing a full-flegded product

Your profile:

• You have 3 or more years experience as a Python developer. You are used to work with unix-style operating systems, especially Linux
• Relational databases and SQL are not foreign to you
• You know Python 3 and 2 and the important changes between them
• You have a working knowledge of network communication (IP, TCP, HTTP)
• Debuggers (and profilers) are an integral part of your toolkit
• You are familiar with building and releasing Python projects
• You are proficient with at least one other scripting language (e.g. Bash)
• While not strictly necessary, familiarity with other general purpose programming languages (e.g. C / C++, or Rust) is beneficial
• You consider the necessity of extensive automated software testing a given fact
• Working as a team player is important for you. You actively seek the advice of your teammates and support them with advice where you can. You look forward to pair programming, reviewing your team’s code and learning new tricks by doing so
• Your analytical mind likes solving complex problems in cooperation with Exasol’s developers and architects
• Knowledge about the following libraries is beneficial but not required: pandas, SQL Alchemy, pytest
  

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About Exasol:

Exasol is the world’s fastest analytics database, trusted by the world’s most ambitious organizations. Built for speed and flexibility, it can analyze billions of rows in seconds and run high-performance analytics securely – whether in the cloud or on-premises. Need to scale your analytics function? Simple pricing makes it easy. Want to deliver frictionless insights? Automatic self-indexing tunes performance for optimal results. And you don’t have to wait - Exasol fits into any data environment, so you can get started right away.

Exasol – accelerating insights from the world’s data.

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