Software Developer at RCSB PDB

Rutgers University; Piscataway Township (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Rutgers University, housed in the Quantitative Biomedicine Institute, seeks a Software Developer to collaborate with scientists and developers on updating and maintaining PDB archives and related data-intensive applications.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, legacy code adaptation, and ensuring high availability, with a salary range of $110,000 to $160,000 and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related certification.
• Experience with database administration, Python, shell scripting.
• Familiar with data backup, recovery, security, and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Perform and monitor weekly update processes for PDB archives and implement improvements.
• Extend and maintain new content types within the PDB data archives.
• Build, support, and tune high-availability database systems with indexing and query tuning.
• Monitor database performance, apply patches, perform backups, and enable fast recovery.
• Design, develop, and deploy data-intensive scientific applications and refactor legacy code.

Skills

Python programming

Shell scripting

Database administration

C++ programming

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

MySQL

MongoDB

MariaDB

Job description

Rutgers University is hiring a Software Developer at RCSB PDB. The role involves collaborating with scientists and developers to perform database updates, maintain database systems, improve performance, and develop data-intensive scientific applications related to structural biological data. The developer will also debug, test, and adapt legacy code while supporting high availability and quality in the PDB archives.

Highlights

• Perform and monitor weekly update processes for PDB archives and implement improvements.
• Extend and maintain new content types within the PDB data archives.
• Build, support, and tune high-availability database systems, including indexing and query performance tuning.
• Monitor database performance, apply patches, perform backups, and use high-speed transaction recovery techniques.
• Design, develop, and deploy modern data-intensive scientific applications and refactor legacy code.
• Required skills include database administration (MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB), Python programming, shell scripting, and knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, and integrity.
• Preferred qualifications include experience with large scientific datasets, DBMS in cloud and on-premise environments, C++ programming, and strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or relevant certification required.
• Salary range is $110,000 to $160,000, with flexible start date and comprehensive benefits offered.
• Position housed in the Quantitative Biomedicine Institute at Rutgers University; work involves collaboration with wwPDB scientists and developers.