Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

As a Platform Engineer, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of an in\-house Linux distribution for medical devices. Your…

Platform Engineer

Job description

As a Platform Engineer, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of an in\-house Linux distribution for medical devices. Your primary focus will be the next generation of a custom operating system abstraction layer, including a C\+\+ system daemon and plugins that expose OS capabilities through an RPC API.

Your responsibilities will include

• Developing and maintaining the custom OS abstraction layer, with a strong focus on the modern C\+\+ backend
• Implementing and enhancing the next\-generation system daemon
• Developing plugins that expose operating system capabilities through an RPC API
• Contributing technical expertise to medical instrument and software development projects
• Creating and maintaining C\+\+ unit and integration tests
• Refactoring and improving legacy code to ensure quality and maintainability
• Managing Debian packages, configurations and related platform components
• Collaborating with Linux software engineers and other technical stakeholders

About the customer

Our client is a globally recognised healthcare and life sciences organisation developing innovative medical instruments and software solutions. You will join a collaborative team of Linux software engineers within its enterprise platform and infrastructure division.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of hands\-on professional experience with modern C\+\+
• Strong experience using Linux as a software development environment
• Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• Advanced English skills, including the ability to explain technical topics to non\-technical audiences
• Strong problem\-solving skills and the ability to work independently
• Quick learner with a proactive, can\-do attitude
• Collaborative and team\-oriented working style

Nice to have

• Experience with virtualisation or container technologies, particularly Kubernetes
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS
• Infrastructure\-as\-Code experience, ideally with Terraform
• Experience in embedded software, hardware drivers or ARM platforms
• Knowledge of hardware and software integration
• German language skills

Compensation benefits

• Workload: 80–100%
• Hybrid working model with approximately 50% onsite presence
• Flexible working hours
• Initial 12\-month assignment with the possibility of extension jpid3e88d61jm jit0731jm jiy26jm