Software Engineer - Performance and Scalability

What makes us Qlik?

A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for 14 years in a row, Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster.

We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources, and our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities.

The Software Engineer – Performance, Scalability and FinOps Role 

Join our dynamic Performance, Scalability, and FinOps team as a Software Engineer, where you’ll help shape the success of our SaaS platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work at the intersection of technology and financial efficiency, ensuring our platform scales effectively while enabling others to make informed architectural decisions.

Using Qlik Sense for data analytics, you’ll dive into SaaS scalability and efficiency, collaborating closely with R&D teams to build a high-performing, cost-optimized platform.

What makes this role interesting?

• Develop deep cloud knowledge: Gain in-depth understanding of Qlik’s architecture and cloud infrastructure, particularly in AWS.
• Impact platform efficiency: Your work will directly influence how efficiently we leverage cloud resources.
• Boost FinOps visibility: Help improve how we track and understand cost, and share this knowledge across teams.
• Broaden analytics skills: Use cutting-edge tools like Qlik Sense to analyze, optimize, and drive scalability and performance improvements.
• Collaborative environment: Work with diverse teams from finance to operations, enhancing both your technical and collaborative skills.

Here’s how you’ll be making an impact:

• Cloud resource optimization: Review and analyze cloud usage patterns, proposing optimizations that drive efficiency and reduce costs.
• Cost-focused analytics: Develop and maintain analytics apps in Qlik Sense, giving valuable insights to yourself and others.
• Automation and workflow improvement: Script and automate workflows, making operations smoother and more efficient.
• Collaborative impact: Work closely with finance, operations, and technology teams to ensure our platform is not only scalable but cost-effective.
• Educational influence: Create reports and educational content that guide teams across R&D on optimizing costs and scaling effectively.

We’re looking for a teammate with:

• At least bachelor’s degree in computer science, industrial engineering and management or similar field.
• 2+ years well-documented experience as Software Developer/DevOps Engineer/SRE.
• Experience with containerized deployments and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Helm, Docker).
• Experience building end-to-end solutions as a Software engineer.
• Experience from working in cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) with knowledge in the domain of infrastructure, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Interest in SW architecture from an end-to-end perspective.
• Decision-making and initiative-taking abilities.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/coding language.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills.
• Willingness to work with geographically distributed teams across various time zones.
• Strong at verbal and written communication.

Desired Qualifications:

• FinOps practitioner certification and/or experience from FinOps related work.
• Experience from Qlik Sense development.
• Familiarity with metrics and monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• AWS cloud practitioner certification
• Exposure to or understanding of machine learning concepts.

The location for this role is:

Lund, Sweden

Remote, Sweden

If you're excited about driving cloud efficiency and influencing architectural decisions across teams, apply today and join us in shaping the future of our scalable, cost-efficient SaaS platform!

More about Qlik and who we are:

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What else do we offer?

• Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs
• Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness
• Flexible, diverse, and international work environment

Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra “change the world” day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage participation in our Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs

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