Location: Near CET Timezone. Home Office / Nürnberg / Prague
At this position you will work on the Open Build Service (OBS). A massive Ruby on Rails/Perl collaboration platform to maintain, build and distribute software. It helps SUSE Engineering, our partners and community developers to ship software for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures. The OBS makes it easy to harness the power of the open source development model by providing all the collaborative workflows needed.
At SUSE, we have a dedicated team of engineers who work, as part of the global free software community, to continually improve the quality and functionality of the Open Build Service and to provide SUSE/openSUSE developers with the enterprise-quality service they've come to expect. This is our team, the Build Solutions team.
The team shares responsibility for the complete product life cycle. From planning, over software development, to delivering improvements to the customers. All members collaborate across all disciplines and venture into areas of expertise other than their own. We value the agile principles, take full stack web development seriously and practice the DevOPS culture.
https://openbuildservice.org/team
We value our customers. By understanding peoples' goals, needs and their limitations. Everything we build and change, everything we do, we do for the people using our product.
We value quality. By taking due time, avoiding shortcuts, pacing ourselves. By being critical of what we do and by welcoming critique from others. We always leave our code base, processes and team better than we have found it.
We value responsibility. By taking charge of our objectives and priorities. By speaking our minds, by being honest and frank with each other. We are the change we want to see.
We value ownership. Instead of hiding behind processes, or driving relentlessly towards individual goals, we take ownership of the entire thing. We do that when things go right but also when things go wrong. No matter if they were in, or out of our control. No matter if that hurts and bruises our ego. It was never anyone else's fault, it was ours. We believe ownership is respect.
We value collaboration. By working together toward goals, in a horizontal structure with flexible leadership. We do not only share results with each other, but how we get there. We constantly reflect our thoughts, communication and behavior and how they bring everyone else forward. We win together, we lose together.
We value community. By curiously exploring what other people inside and outside this industry think, do and produce. We expose ourselves to all kinds of ideas and openly share our own views with others.
We value diversity, pluralism and freedom of choice. We think differences, not uniformity, in origin, circumstance and experience make people, the practice of software development and in the end, our product interesting. We believe it takes a diverse set of people to produce a product truly useful for everyone.
We value personal growth. By continuously learning about other people, technology, development methodologies and efforts. We are open minded, always evolving adventurers.
Your responsibilities will be manifold. Rooted in constant reflection and introspection together with your fellow team members and customers. Based on software development across the whole spectrum, from UX design to data modeling with SQL. Driven by ownership of the software you produce, from its inception to debugging its issues in production.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Implementing features/bug fixes for the product
- Improve quality and lower technical debt of the product
- Review and evaluate code submissions from other developers
- Review and evaluate feature/issue requests from other developers and customers
- Cooperate with the team and other stakeholders to align plans in an agile fashion
- Ensure that your deliverables are on-time and of the highest quality
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Infrastructure management
- Continuous integration of the product with other software in the stack
- Continuous deployment
- Monitoring the health and performance of deployments
- Incident management
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Document features, workflows and concepts
- Market the product and the team to SUSE, the community and industry
- Organizing/Presenting at/Participating in technology conferences all over the world
- Continuously improve your skill set and knowledge. With activities including but not limited to:
- Autonomous learning
- Group learning
- Peer Programming
- Mob Programming
The Build Solution team expects you to have experience with full stack web development. Including but not limited to:
- Test/Behavior Driven Development, especially with RSpec
- MVC Frameworks, especially with Ruby on Rails
- User Interface and User Experience Development with HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Data Modeling & Business Logic, especially with SQL
- Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
- Hardware, OS, Network, Hosting Environments
As the Open Build Service is a Free Software project, you ideally have a background in this development method.
We also expect these personal traits from you:
- Strong responsibility and self organization
- Strong collaborative skills e.g. for peer reviews, open communication, navigating a transparent development process
- Being able to convey what you want to others
- Being able to mentor and teach other developers
- Being able to participate in a heterogeneous project, which embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking different languages and having different cultural backgrounds
- Additionally we require a strong proficiency in English (spoken and written)
This position will report to the Engineering Manager of the Build Solutions Team.