Senior Software Engineer - Edge Platform

AP Sensing GmbH

Job

In this role, you will develop the edge platform for delivering real-time applications, design API and SDK components, and assist teams in transforming prototypes into production-ready solutions.

Job summary

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Job technologies

Your role in the team

  • You become part of a global team developing distributed fiber optic sensing solutions that help optimize critical infrastructure, protect people, and safeguard the environment.
  • Using fiber optic cables as continuous sensors, we combine advanced photonics, measurement technology, and modern software to deliver reliable real-time insights along pipelines, power cables, railways, and other assets.
  • In this role, you contribute to solutions deployed worldwide, working in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary engineering environment that values technical rigor, long-term quality, and practical innovation.
  • You will take a key role in shaping and designing our edge platform for developing, testing, deploying, and operating real-time applications.
  • You design and implement secure, reliable, and maintainable platform components, APIs, and SDKs that provide the foundation for robust applications in constrained environments.
  • You work closely with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Project Engineers and enable application teams to turn prototypes into production-ready solutions.
  • You contribute to technical direction, engineering best practices, and the long-term evolution of the platform.

Our expectations of you

Education

  • You hold a technical degree, ideally in computer science or a comparable field.

Qualifications

  • You have excellent programming skills in at least one statically typed language such as Rust (preferred), C++, Go, or similar, and you write high-quality, maintainable code.
  • You are comfortable working at the interface between software engineering and applied science and understand the challenges of turning research code into robust production systems.
  • You quickly understand complex technical and domain-specific problems and break them down into clear, pragmatic solutions.

Experience

  • You have at least 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, including substantial work on data-intensive real-time systems.
  • You have experience with observability, deployment, monitoring, and operating production systems in distributed or edge-based environments.
  • You have strong Python skills and practical experience using Python in ML-related tasks, such as data pipelines, model integration, model deployment, or monitoring.
  • Ideally, you have experience implementing and operating distributed streaming platforms, IoT systems, or edge-based applications.
  • Ideally, you have experience with containerized deployments and Kubernetes in test and production environments.

What we offer

  • Halbjährliche Bonusverteilung (abhängig von der Unternehmensleistung).
  • Jährliche Gehaltserhöhungen.
  • Urlaubsbonus.
  • Weihnachtsgeld.
  • AP Sensing card with 50 euros credit per month.
  • Unbefristeter Arbeitsvertrag mit Arbeitsplatzsicherheit.
  • Betriebliche Altersvorsorge.
  • Participation in the Corporate Benefits Program.
  • Meal subsidy for the lunch catering.
  • Free drinks and fresh fruit.
  • Job bike offer.
  • Karrierechancen aufgrund stetigen, gesunden Unternehmenswachstums.
  • Flache Hierarchien und sehr kollegiale Beziehung zu den Managern.
  • Sehr positive und wertschätzende Arbeitsatmosphäre.
  • International and intercultural team.
  • Flexible working hours and home office options.
  • Company laptop for everyone.
  • Ideal work-life balance.
  • Regular company and team events.
  • Employee training and education.
  • New and fully equipped kitchen with high-tech coffee machine.
  • Kiosk in the building.
  • Large, bright, and air-conditioned offices.
  • Modern office equipment with creative spaces.
  • Höhenverstellbare Schreibtische für ergonomisches Arbeiten.
  • 2 minutes to the S-Bahn and motorway.
  • Kostenlose Parkplätze.
  • Sports facilities: weekly fitness coach.

Benefits

Health, fitness & fun

Higher take-home pay

Topics you will work on

Job locations

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  • Location Böblingen
    Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About your employer

For more than 25 years, we have been leaders in optical measurement technology and offer high-quality and innovative solutions in the field of distributed fiber optic sensing (DTS, DAS, DVS).

Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid
Industry
Industry, Production
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Senior Software Engineer - Edge Platform

AP Sensing GmbH