Software Backend Developer - Team Issue Detection

At Instana we process and analyze millions of spans traces metrics and events per second in order to provide actionable APM intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base.

As part of a multi functional team you’ll help expanding Instana’s Issue Detection and Resolution platform. Your role will cover the whole software engineering life cycle from technical design to implementation quality assurance delivery to production as well as maintenance and customer support. If you’re interested it is also possible to support the designer of the team on requirements engineering tasks as well as in customer interviews. Together with your peers you’ll work on a Java based streaming backend which is connected via gRPC and leverages Dropwizard Kafka and Clickhouse mainly. In close collaboration with the two other teams you’ll contribute to create the best issue detection and resolution platform on the market for our customers.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a member of the Issue Detection team your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with Product Management and implement feature roadmaps
• Leverage modern tools and techniques to develop clean efficient and reusable code.
• Contribute to performance optimization
• Review code and promote test automation
• Handle issues reported by our customers.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3-4 years programming experience in Java J2EE Spring MVC and JavaScript.
• Experience in developing microservices for distributed systems.
• Experience in container technologies like docker Kubernetes.
• Experience with DevOps CICD tools like Jenkins Maven Ansible
• Experience in automation testing frameworks like Junit Mockito Spring Test Cypress.
• Good code writing discipline and an eye for code efficiency
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving techniques
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience working in cloud service providers like IBM Cloud AWS Google Azure.
• Experience with functional reactive programming paradigm like Project Reactor
• Experience in Java J2EE Spring MVC and JavaScript.