Senior Research Software Engineer - Cloud & Kubernetes

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) seeks a Senior Research Software Developer to lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of cloud-native computing environments for research and data projects.

You will deliver production-grade software across public-cloud and on-premises platforms, collaborating with researchers and engineers to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, testing, and maintaining production-quality software systems.
• Strong Python programming skills, including services, APIs, automation, data-processing workflows, or research software.
• Strong Unix/Linux programming and systems skills, including shell usage, debugging, and automation.
• Hands-on cloud development across one or more public-cloud and on‑premises environments (AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Experience containerizing applications with Docker or compatible containers.
• Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes.
• CI/CD expertise, including GitHub Actions workflows for testing, security checks, image builds, and deployments.
• Knowledge of software engineering fundamentals and agile, team-based development.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing software components, data structures, algorithms, APIs, and research workflows using Python and related technologies.
• Developing and operating containerized applications and Kubernetes‑based platforms across AWS, Azure, and on‑premises environments.
• Establishing and improving CI/CD, automated testing, security, reliability, and observability practices, including GitHub Actions, vulnerability scanning, logging, monitoring, and deployment automation.

Skills

Python programming

Unix/Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Agile

Communication

Education

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jira

Job description

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) seeks a Senior Research Software Developer to lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of cloud-native computing environments for research and data projects.

You will deliver production-grade software across public-cloud and on-premises platforms, collaborating with researchers and engineers to translate requirements into scalable solutions.