Software Engineer in Distributed Storage (EP-SFT-2026-36-GRAP)

We are offering a position in the Rucio development team at CERN. Rucio is an open-source scientific data management system responsible to manage the data of some of the biggest scientific data producers in the world. Experiments such as ATLAS, CMS, Belle II, DUNE, and many others rely on Rucio, which manages world-wide distributed data in the multi exa-byte range. The work on this post will be carried out in the context of the European RI-SCALE Unlocking RI potential with Scalable AI and Data project, where Rucio will be used to manage the vast datasets of multiple European research infrastructures. You will join the Rucio core development team at CERN, a dedicated group of software engineers and computer scientists who work on the frontier of scientific big-data. You will contribute to the design and evolution of the system and collaborate with a variety of people at CERN and the diverse open-source community of Rucio.

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