Senior Sw Development Engineer

Location: Ottawa 20 Colonnade, Canada
In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.
Thales is currently seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the team in Ottawa, CA. This role can be fully remote, but candidates that are local to Ottawa, CA are preferred. Remote candidates will be required to occasionally be onsite, travel expenses will be covered. Thales has been the number one vendor in the HSM (Hardware Security Module) market for years. A successful candidate will join the Ottawa-based engineering team that designs the next generation, cloud-native, multi-tenant HSM product, which will further advance Thales’s leading position in the HSM market.
Key Responsibilities:

• You will heavily invest in documenting and testing your designs including test automation.
• You will participate in requirements analysis, architecture/design discussions, planning sessions and effort estimates.
• You will work on new features and products. You will also integrate with the third party software and, as needed, maintain the existing code base
• You will design, code, test, debug, and document the Linux-based embedded HSM software and the host-side software, which interfaces with the embedded HSM software
• You will work in a very dynamic environment and will interact other teams.
• You will be exposed to all areas of cloud-native, Linux-based embedded designs from boot-loaders to high-level applications to containers and virtual machines to crypto algorithms to device drivers to low-level hardware interfaces to test tools.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience with the Linux operating system.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in embedded software development in performance-demanding, resource-constrained environments strong C, reasonable C++, and strong understanding of multi-threading, operating systems and hardware interfaces.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Containers and virtual machines
• ARM CPU, Linux kernel configuration and drivers
• Cryptography
• TCP/IP networking, REST, gRPC, micro-services
• Experience in several of the following:
• Quick learner, analytical, methodical, diligent, thorough, and a self-motivated team player.
• Familiarity with Go and RUST
• Python and shell scripting

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.