What you'll do
We are looking for a passionate Computing Engineer to join CERN's IT Storage and Data Management group (IT-SD). Our group enables large-scale data access for the laboratory, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN's broader experimental programme, managing more than one exabyte of storage in the CERN Data Centre.
You will join the CERNBox team, which provides cloud storage to the CERN community and is making CERNBox interoperable and deployable across European research infrastructures and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation. You will package, test and validate the stack using Kubernetes and Helm for deployment across on-premises and public clouds, and contribute to Reva, its Go-based backend, by implementing the Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) protocol, an emerging IETF standard for interoperable cloud storage and data sharing across institutions.
If you are excited about cloud-native systems, open standards and building software adopted by research institutions worldwide, this is the place for you!
Your responsibilities
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Ideal start date: 01/11/2026
Contract duration (in months): 24
Job flexibility: Hybrid
Employment conditions
We are looking for a passionate Computing Engineer to join CERN's IT Storage and Data Management group (IT-SD). Our group enables large-scale data access for the laboratory, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN's broader experimental programme, managing more than one exabyte of storage in the CERN Data Centre.
You will join the CERNBox team, which provides cloud storage to the CERN community and is making CERNBox interoperable and deployable across European research infrastructures and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation. You will package, test and validate the stack using Kubernetes and Helm for deployment across on-premises and public clouds, and contribute to Reva, its Go-based backend, by implementing the Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) protocol, an emerging IETF standard for interoperable cloud storage and data sharing across institutions.
If you are excited about cloud-native systems, open standards and building software adopted by research institutions worldwide, this is the place for you!
Your responsibilities
- Develop and integrate backend software components.
- Package and deploy interoperable services in distributed environments.
- Support CERN community: you will join our operations team, troubleshooting incidents and supporting users.
- Contribute your code, features and fixes back to the CERNBox open-source projects, working alongside a broader open-source community.
- Work with partner institutions and research infrastructures across Europe to test, validate and refine these tools together.
- Support users and partner teams as they adopt these tools, helping with troubleshooting and guidance.
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- Experience, or a strong interest, in backend development and cloud-native deployment.
- Enjoys troubleshooting, hands-on problem-solving, user support and service management.
- Comfortable collaborating with external partners and international teams.
- Curiosity about system integration and interoperability challenges.
- Your studies focused on Computer Engineering.
Your skills
- Kubernetes and Helm chart development.
- Backend software development, in particular Go.
- Linux tech stack, administration and automation.
- Nice to have: frontend development.
- Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the basics of the other language.
Ideal start date: 01/11/2026
Contract duration (in months): 24
Job flexibility: Hybrid
Employment conditions
- Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.
- Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.
