Software Engineer(m/w/x)

## Job Advertisement HKI-05/2025 # Software Engineer (m/f/ div) The research group **Microbiome Dynamics (MDB)** is seeking a highly skilled software engineer with skills in both, software development and monitoring, to tackle exciting life science problems. In the recent past, we significantly upgraded our computer hardware and have exclusive access to multiple high performance compute servers to analyse big life science data. In parallel, we have to continuously develop and optimise our software solutions towards efficient, high-performance computation to cope with the increasing complexity of big data.  On top of that, we reach out to the community whenever possible and encapsulate our services into pipelines and web applications. Together, our hardware, pipelines and encapsulated software applications require constant monitoring and maintenance. To ensure the fulfilment of our goals, we welcome applications from software and IT specialists with the following expertise: **Expertise required:** * University degree in computer science, bioinformatics or a comparable field * Experience in accessing server units through command-line, as well as developing/maintaining analysis pipelines in containerized environments, is a must * Proficiency in R and/or Python for pipeline and web application development, as well as big data analysis * Interest in life science data science, including gene expression and microbiome data analysis, is a plus * Knowledge in statistical methods in the context of biological systems is a plus **Tasks to be fulfilled:** In collaboration with our team, the tasks to be addressed by the Software Engineer comprise: * Web app development and maintenance * Curation of pipelines dedicated to efficient, high-throughput data preprocessing and analysis * Cluster management / server administration * Distributed computing / software scaling towards grid engines * Monitoring / work load surveillance of our HPCs **We offer:** The Software Engineer will be hosted in the research group **Microbiome Dynamics** **(MBD)** of **Prof. Dr. Gianni Panagiotou** of the Leibniz-HKI in an international, dynamic team with access to state-of-the-art computational resources. Remuneration will be according to the TV-L (Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federal States, unrestricted, full-time). Depending on qualifications, adjustments are possible. As an equal opportunity employer, the Leibniz-HKI is committed to increasing the percentage of female scientists and therefore especially encourages them to apply.