Jobs

Software Engineer - Backend Services

Globus Labs is a research group within the University of Chicago, and part of the Data Science and Learning Division at Argonne National Labs, develop and deploy cutting edge technologies to solve new challenges facing the scientific community and enable break-through scientific discoveries.

As a member of the Globus Labs software development team, the focus of this position will be to prototype, develop, and deploy new software services to help scientists and researchers publish, share, and make accessible their data and AI models, as well as to solve problems in domains ranging from materials science, chemistry, catalysis, x-ray science, and more. We’re looking for highly skilled developers experienced in building and supporting Python backend services and systems that will be used by thousands of researchers in pursuit of open data initiatives supported by the NSF, NIST, DOE, and the Materials Genome Initiative.

Software Engineering Manager

As a Software Engineering Manager at Globus, you will lead a team of engineers, providing technical guidance while managing and growing the team to deliver robust platform services. As member of the product team, you will play a pivotal role in supporting scientists worldwide by delivering scalable and secure solutions for research data management and computation, and automation. The Globus platform is a hybrid solution that combines AWS-hosted orchestration services with installable applications, enabling seamless integration into customer environments. It offers a range of capabilities, including identity and access management, data transfer and sharing, and task automation, delivered as both software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

Leveraging your extensive expertise in software design, development, and engineering methodologies, along with strong management and communication skills, you will empower your team to architect new capabilities, maintain reliable operations, and contribute to the design of innovative products. In this role, you will lead and mentor a diverse team of engineers with varying levels of experience, while collaborating with other product teams to build a comprehensive suite of services across a broad range of technologies. Your responsibilities will span from contributing to product definition and strategy to hands-on coding, applying your versatile skill set to deliver solutions that meet customer needs effectively.

If you enjoy collaborative, innovative, mission-driven environments, Globus could be a great fit for you!

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

As a senior member of the Globus Operations team, reporting to the System and Security Operations Manager, the focus of this position is to ensure security is comprehensively and effectively integrated into both our software services and AWS cloud infrastructure. The Globus platform is a hybrid solution that combines AWS-hosted orchestration services with installable applications, enabling seamless integration into customer environments. It offers a range of capabilities, including identity and access management, data transfer and sharing, and task automation, delivered as both software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

This position will architect, implement, and operate a resilient Cloud infrastructure to ensure high-security, high-performance, high-availability and scalability for Globus platform services. We’re looking for a talented senior DevSecOps engineer who can effectively work across teams to integrate security into new and existing software and infrastructure services as well as be an evangelist and educator of security best practices.

Professional Services Developer

As a Professional Services Developer, you will help researchers achieve their research goals by integrating Globus data and compute management services with research applications. Organizations that adopt Globus include universities, national laboratories, federal research agencies and commercial companies of all shapes and sizes. You will complete software development and integration assignments that support our team’s goals.

Are you always eager to hack some Python or Javascript that highlights how to solve a customer’s problem? Do you enjoy learning how other people’s code works and where you can add new features? As a Globus professional services developer you will have ample opportunity to showcase these and many other skills in a collaborative, mission-driven environment at the University of Chicago. You will develop relationship-building skills that enable you to provide exemplary customer service, explore and uncover the research IT needs of our customers, and understand how Globus services can best support their mission.

You will succeed in this role if you: treat it as your craft and are serious about constantly improving it; love technology, and are prepared to go as broad as possible and as deep as necessary to serve the customer; relish being challenged; and are open to deepening your software development skills and learning how to build customer relationships.