Senior Software Engineer – Edge Platform (m/f/d)

Our Company WE ARE AGAIN AWARDED AS TOP ARBEITGEBER 2025! At AP Sensing, we’re building on a success story that began in the garage of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. As an independent HP spin-off, we combine over 40 years of technological expertise with a passion for innovation. Together we’ll continue to enhance infrastructure, protect people, and safeguard our planet. With a commitment to fiber optic sensing, we value every voice and empower growth. Join us in thinking ahead to create a smarter, safer world. YOUR NEW CAREER For our headquarters in Böblingen we are searching an experienced Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d). 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. Your Responsibilities 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. Your Profile You hold a technical degree, ideally in computer science or a comparable field.You have at least 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, including substantial work on data-intensive real-time systems.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 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.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.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. Our Offer half-yearly bonus distribution (depending on company performance)annual salary increasesholiday bonuschristmas bonusAP Sensing Card with 50 Euro credit per monthpermanent employment contract with job securitycompany pension schemeparticipation in the Corporate Benefits Programmeal subsidy for the lunch cateringfree drinks and fresh fruitjob-bike offercareer opportunities due to steady, healthy company growthflat hierarchies and very collegial relationship with managersvery positive and appreciative working atmosphereinternational and intercultural teamflexible working hours and home office optionscompany laptop for everyoneideal work-life balanceregular company and team eventsemployee training and educationnew and fully equipped kitchen with high-tech coffee machinekiosk in the buildinglarge, bright and air-conditioned officesmodern office equipment with creative spacesheight-adjustable desks for ergonomic working2 minutes to the S-Bahn and motorwayfree parking spacessports facilities: weekly fitness coachShowers are available for cyclists and lunch break joggers. Are you ready to play a BIG role in a small team instead of a SMALL role in a big team? Then you are spot-on with us… hr@apsensing.com Contact: Ingrid Licht Reference: 698G AP Sensing GmbH 71034 Böblingen www.apsensing.com