ASTRON
Software Engineer
ASTRONNetherlands4 days ago
Full-timeEngineering
Are you pursuing a career in software engineering, or are you inclined toward innovation and exploration? Are you keen on contributing to research on distant galaxies and sharing your discoveries with the world? If this excites you, we have an exciting opportunity that aligns perfectly with your aspirations!

Software Engineer

Exciting times

For our ongoing Science Data Centre (SDC) development, we seek a software engineer to strengthen one of our highly esteemed scrum teams. At the SDC, we strive to maximize the scientific impact of our world-leading instrumentation portfolio. Our team offers software, tools, and infrastructure to empower scientific breakthroughs and fuel scientific collaboration with the astronomical community and (inter)national partners. As a dedicated and passionate software engineer, you will contribute to developing the SDC within a dynamic team environment.

What you can expect from us:

  • An inspiring, innovative, and pleasant working environment with an international and inclusive work culture.
  • Opportunities and encouragement to grow and develop yourself and your career.
  • The exceptional combination of astronomy, operations, and engineering in one building.
  • Employment conditions tailored to your needs (part-time appointment, parental leave, a balance between working at the office and working from home*, etc.).
  • A temporary appointment in the Netherlands Foundation of Scientific Research Institutes (NWO-I) service for 2 years (with a possible contract for an indefinite period based on good performance and sufficient funding).
  • A gross monthly salary in the range of €3.600 to € 5.700 (full-time salary) which amounts to maximum 80k annually, based on relevant experience, an 8% holiday allowance, and an 8.33% year-end bonus
  • A comprehensive and solid pension scheme (ABP).
  • 42 vacation days per year on a full-time basis.
  • Ambitious colleagues who are driven by collaboration in an international work environment.
  • Collaboration at our office sparks some of the best ideas and solutions to complex problems. Therefore, we work at least 60% of our time at ASTRON. If you face difficulties coming to the office, we will gladly consider exceptions on a case-by-case basis.


We strongly believe that progress, creativity, and innovation are only possible in an inclusive environment, and therefore, we value the unique skills and qualities you bring to the table. While we appreciate a range of software engineering expertise, not ticking all the boxes does not diminish our interest in your application. Therefore, we warmly welcome everyone, particularly women and individuals from underrepresented groups, to apply for an interview.

To discover firsthand experiences of colleagues who love working at ASTRON, click this link.

What your challenge would be:

  • Building products in a scientific international environment
  • Working with petabyte or exabyte amounts of data
  • Improve our continuous integration and delivery environment through GitLab pipelines.
  • Improve our infrastructure through infrastructure tooling and/ or IaC.
  • Apply principles from DevOps, like collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement
  • Provide 1st-line support to internal customers as a shared responsibility in the team; once you have achieved good and basic understanding of all the tools and systems
  • Apply principles from DevOps, like collaboration, figuring out requirements and timelines, automation, and continuous improvement.


Calling all talented software engineers who:

  • Know Python (Django experience is a bonus).
  • Know TypeScript front-end development (ReactJS experience is a bonus).
  • Know Docker.
  • Like working full-stack and being part of a scrum team.


Looking forward to your application

You don’t need to tick all the boxes above: we want to meet you if you are interested in this exciting opportunity! We look forward to receiving your motivation letter and curriculum vitae. Candidates will be considered until the position has been filled.

For more information, please contact Helen Jong, Specialist & Guest Recruiter for ASTRON assigned by Tom Kamphuis, Competence Group Lead of the Software Delivery group. You can reach Helen via mail [email protected] or via phone at +31-6-19947273. You can also reach out to Tom at [email protected].

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