C++ DevOps Engineer at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in Pullman, Washington

Job Description:

Do you enjoy learning and growing your technical skills by taking on challenging problems across a wide range of technologies while working at a great company with an important mission?


SEL is an industry leading manufacturer of devices that protect, control, monitor and automate the power grid with customers in nearly every country. SEL has a corporate mission that supports critical infrastructure used to power people's lives all around the world to be safer, more reliable and more economical.


Our team is on the cutting-edge setting standards in quality, efficiency and security for product teams at SEL. Join our team to help our company modernize, standardize and harden the security of build, test and release processes for software and firmware development teams. You will work with smart, friendly, talented and motivated colleagues who will collaborate with you.


We're looking for a team member who understands firmware build systems, can write or refactor automation, can provide technical support for product teams, and who can learn new tools quickly as the project or task requires.



A typical day might include the following:

• Responding to requests for assistance troubleshooting a CI Issue


• Creating tools or scripts to automate some part of our CI process


• Managing build, test and security tools and infrastructure


• Virtual meetings with our team, our partners and our customers


• Regular business hours Monday - Friday, work from home 2 days a week

This job might be for you if:

• You enjoy writing code and documentation to automate processes


• You enjoy a mix of IT, development and test automation tasks


• You're good at investigating and resolving issues affecting other engineers


• You understand how to harden and secure product development


• You communicate well with your colleagues in remote offices


• You appreciate freedom and time to study a problem and find the best solution

Required Embedded Experience:

• Windows and Linux proficiency


• Proficiency in C, C++, Shell


• Compilers (such as GCC, Clang)


• Package Managers (such as Conan, vcpkg, Spack)


• Build tools (such as CMake, Make, Ninja, ccache)


• Testing Frameworks (such as GTest, Catch2)


• TCP/IP Networking concepts

Preferred Experience:

• CI/CD Tools (Jenkins)


• Infrastructure as Code tools


• Observability and Security tools


• Containers and Virtual Machines (Docker, Kubernetes, KVM)

Bonus Experience:

• Qemu and Libvirt


• Xilinx and(or) Altera development experience

Ready to make a difference? Apply now and join our mission to secure and modernize the power grid!



Competitive pay. Superior benefits. Inspiring work.



People are at the core of our company and we hire employee-owners. We welcome you to learn more about how we support employees.

• We're 100% employee owned. Retirement benefits include an employer funded stock ownership plan (ESOP) and personal 401K options.
  
  


• We offer top tier medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  
  


• We recognize the importance of a healthy life balance and offer: 10 paid holidays, annual vacation accrual starting at 12 days, 9 paid sick days, and paid family and medical leave that covers 90% of your pay.
  
  


• We foster growth and development of our employees through avenues such as STEM courses, apprenticeships, tuition assistance, and engineering development programs.
  
  


• Ask our team about other benefits including wellness, fertility, adoption, and flexible spending benefits.
  
  

Salary Range



We anticipate filling this position as a Software Engineer $66,800 - $104,600 per year. We are open to reviewing additional candidates with more or less experience and the pay range may differ if filled at a different level. Our pay ranges are determined by job, responsibility, and location. We base our starting pay offer and title on location and job-related factors such as candidate experience, training, knowledge, and skills.



Communication with Applicants



We communicate with all applicants. If you do not receive a response about your application, please check your SPAM filter or reach out to us at careers@selinc.com.


SEL is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Vets/Disabled. Apply Now