Java Software Engineer

Responsibilities

Instana Sensors team is seeking to hire a MediorJava Software Engineer to join our team for developing infrastructure monitoring solutions.

At Instana, we process and analyze millions of spans, traces, metrics, and events per second to provide actionable APM intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base. This constant stream of telemetry creates a number of challenges that must be met with operational agility, as well as strong architecture, design, and development.

As a member of our team, you’ll be mostly focused on the Instana Agent component which is responsible for automatic and zero-configuration service discovery, and data retrieval in order to monitor various technologies. The Instana Agent needs to work under various conditions and have a really low impact on the customer environment so your abilities to predict hot spots, writing optimized and concurrent code, and paying attention to details will be highly valuable. Working with Instana Agent will include a significant amount of researching and experimenting. Moreover, you will come across a wide range of technologies, like infrastructure platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes ...), as well as our rich Web UI. You should be open to learning new technologies and willing to get your hands dirty across the entire software stack.


Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

2+ years of experience.
Ability to work in a team and have a strong willingness to work as a team player and perfect self-organization skills.

Analytical and problem-solving skills.

Ability to understand the problem and formally specify it, so such problem specification could be transformed to program code.

Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies really fast.

Understanding architecture design principles and their production use cases.

Good Java skills and experience in writing optimized code.

Understanding of Java dependency management and build tools such as Maven.

Good code writing discipline and eye for code efficiency.

Experience with using different container runtimes and their APIs (such as Docker, Containerd, CRI-O, and Podman) and orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes).

Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Ability to manage multiple projects and work in a cross-functional team.

Understanding Linux OS concepts and toolset

Fluent in written and spoken English

Preferred technical and professional experience

Hands-on experience with distributed tracing and application performance monitoring.

Experience with Project Reactor, Kafka, and Elasticsearch is a plus.

Shell scripting experience.

Basic TypeScript skills.

Hands-on experience with OSGI framework concepts and use cases.