Software Developer, Structural Biology Data Systems

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, 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.