Principal Software Engineer – DevOps (Team Lead)

Job Summary:

Is DevOps more to you than just configuring AWS and VMs to run the quick unit tests of web services? Do you enjoy creating tailored solutions for complex throughput problems of embedded software teams? Then join our team at Cognex! This role is in the Platforms organization, responsible for creating reusable solutions for teams around the globe to then create the most sophisticated industrial barcode readers, machine vision and smart cameras in the world. We combine custom hardware, specialized lighting and optics, and world class vision algorithms to create embedded systems for reading barcodes. Using these systems, we can find and read high-density symbols on package labels or marked directly on a variety of industrial parts, including aircraft engines, electronics substrates, and pharmaceuticals test equipment. Our devices need to read hundreds of codes per minute, so the team needs to optimize both hardware and software to create best in class technology.

We are offering a comprehensive package of both interesting and challenging work, fun, and reward:

• Work as part of one of the fastest growing and most successful companies in the industry with a double-digit growth target for the next decade. This growth translates into new challenges, and the opportunity to lead one of our growing teams.
• Join a warm, informal, personable and entrepreneurial culture in mind.
• We are working Hybrid (3 WFO+ 2 WFH).

Just some loose terms to show that we are buzzword-proof: multi-national development teams, heterogeneous multi-core system, real-time applications, industry 4.0. Sounds exciting, right?

About you:

Our ideal candidate is a pragmatic software professional with a can-do attitude who shares the enthusiasm for learning and applying any new development that helps to keep our software platform state of the art. Here's a list of some of the things we pay attention to in our hiring process:

• Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Three years+ experience with performance optimization based on hardware, software and workflow-based bottlenecks required
• Excellent presentation, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills required
• One year+ experience leading a team required
• Experience designing and maintaining a CI / CD system for multiple teams required. Experience in TeamCity and Kotlin desired
• Experience with docker, AWS, infrastructure as code desired
• High energy and motivated learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Verbal and written fluency in English required

If you recognize yourself in what is written above, we would love to discuss your ambitions.

What you will do:

• Design and enhance a continuous integration / continuous deployment pipeline to ensure fast & reliable test feedback times
• Create & lead a team that will boost productivity across multiple distributed development teams
• Analyze current bottlenecks, align with upper management on execution plan, and perform ROI analysis
• Ensure a robust and high-quality infrastructure by developing test automation
• Improve feedback times by optimizing hardware, software, and workflow-based bottlenecks
• Automate workflows of our engineers like automated regression detection, branching tools or by enabling static code analyzers
• Close collaboration with company-wide software engineering teams
• Occasional travel to the USA or Germany

About us:

Cognex is a global leader in the exciting and growing field of machine vision, with 2,500 employees in offices worldwide. Our employees, proudly called “Cognoids”, are passionate about solving the most difficult vision problems and get to work with others who take their work seriously, but don’t take themselves seriously. Our Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast culture recognizes achievement and dedication with unique rewards and celebrations.