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(Senior) Software Engineer (m/f/x) - Ceph Object Storage
Our Hetzner Cloud team consists of around 70 employees and works both remotely across Germany and from our office in Munich (Unterföhring).
Object Storage is the newest addition to Hetzner's portfolio of storage products. Although it is a relatively new product, it is already an impressive storage system, consisting of multiple clusters with dozens of petabytes of capacity.
We use Ceph as the underlying storage system. To help us operate and scale our large Ceph setups, we are looking for a Software Engineer (m/f/x) who is enthusiastic about Ceph and wants to work on its C++ code base - especially on the Rados Gateway source code.
Our stack in keywords: Ceph, Ansible, Prometheus and Thanos.
Object Storage is the newest addition to Hetzner's portfolio of storage products. Although it is a relatively new product, it is already an impressive storage system, consisting of multiple clusters with dozens of petabytes of capacity.
We use Ceph as the underlying storage system. To help us operate and scale our large Ceph setups, we are looking for a Software Engineer (m/f/x) who is enthusiastic about Ceph and wants to work on its C++ code base - especially on the Rados Gateway source code.
Our stack in keywords: Ceph, Ansible, Prometheus and Thanos.
Your tasks
- You will improve Ceph and Rados gateway and contribute back to the open source project
- You will backport patches and maintain our internal Ceph build
- You will implement tooling for maintenance and debugging
- You will troubleshoot bugs and performance issues
Your profile
- You are enthusiastic about Ceph and Object Storage
- You have already or want to contribute to an open source Ceph project
- You are proficient in C and C++, and ideally know Python and/or Go
- You enjoy low-level programming and troubleshooting
- You are business fluent in English, German is a plus
What you are working on
Benefits
Pick your kit
MAC, PC or Linux — whatever you prefer, we provide it for you.
Flat hierarchies
You will work with a casual team in a friendly and pleasant working environment.
Flexibility
Whether it's working from home or flexible working hours outside of our core working hours — your needs matter.
Further training
We offer a budget of EUR 2,500 per employee per year to invest in your personal development.
HelloBonnie
In addition to an attractive compensation, you will get a prepaid credit card that we will top up for you monthly with EUR 50.
Events
We highly value and promote in-person meetings such as our offsite, our Christmas party, Oktoberfest, and events on other occasions.
EGYM
We want to invest in the health of our employees and partner with EGYM Wellpass to provide an attractive offer for a wide range of fitness options all across Germany.
Childcare subsidy
We pay part of the childcare costs until your child goes to school.
Workation
You want to combine work and vacation? We want to make this possible for you!
Company holidays
With us, 24 December and 31 December are annual holidays. This means, you don’t need to sacrifice your own vacation days.
Bikeleasing
Exercise keeps us fit. For this reason, you can lease a bicycle of your choice through us.
Recommend a friend Bonus
Our way to thank you if you recommended a new colleague to us.
All-round care
For those who love working in the office: Free drinks and snacks, air-conditioned office with height-adjustable desks, charging station for electric cars and much more.