Overview:
Software Developer - Hybrid, Cary, NC
Nice to meet you!
We're a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.
We're also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.
About the job
We're seeking a Software Developer to help accelerate the connection between data and analytics. Our team enhances SAS capabilities to run faster and more securely with big data by leveraging parallelism, DBMS features, in-database execution, and optimized file access. In this role, you'll contribute to software quality throughout the development lifecycle-quality and trust are core to the SAS brand.
We value close collaboration and innovative problem-solving. Agile practices keep us on a predictable delivery cadence, continuously refined to meet team needs. On this team there are opportunities to work with teams in Advanced Analytics, Visual Analytics, and Risk Fraud, contributing to platform enhancements that support their products. Expect to use and potentially contribute to open-source technologies as part of your work.
As a Software Developer, you will:
* Contribute to a largely C codebase to run SAS code in external data platforms, integrating with SAS Viya and other platforms.
* Participate in project scoping and scheduling; track progress of individual tasks and alert stakeholders of issues blocking or preventing task completion.
* Design and develop high-quality, testable, scalable software solutions within established timelines while adhering to R&D best practices and processes.
* Actively involve other project stakeholders (e.g., managers, developers, product managers) to ensure implementation satisfies functional requirements.
* Participate in project scoping and scheduling; track progress of individual tasks and alert stakeholders of issues blocking or preventing completion of tasks.
* Ensure quality through functional, unit and performance testing.
* Make use of pytest contributing to product test suites.
Required qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
* 5+ years of software development experience developing system-level software
* 5+ years of C or C++ software development
* 2 years of developing software for use in Kubernetes
* 3 years of developing tools with scripting languages like bash and python
* 2-3 years of DBMS and SQL experience
Preferred qualifications
* 3 years of experience with multi-threaded programming
* 2 years of experience with reading and writing data with cloud object stores, like ADLS and S3.
* Familiarity with using Docker
* Familiarity with Apache Spark
* Ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks
* Ability to work with tech support on customer issues
* Developing software using sprints and other Agile practices
* Experience contributing to open source projects
World-Class Benefits
Highlights include...
* Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
* Medical plan options include...
* PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
* HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
* Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that's free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
* An industry-leading 401k plan.
* Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
* Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
* Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
Diverse and Inclusive
At SAS, it's not about fitting into our culture - it's about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it's essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.
Additional Information:
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights.
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