Senior Software Engineer - HiveMQ Cloud

HiveMQ empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of their data with the most trusted edge-to-cloud IoT data streaming platform. Built on MQTT’s publish/subscribe architecture for seamless and flexible integration across operational technology (OT) assets and information technology (IT) applications, HiveMQ ensures businesses can efficiently connect, stream, and govern their data in real-time.

With a focus on reliability, scalability, and security, HiveMQ helps organizations get their data AI-ready—enabling advanced analytics, predictive maintenance, and digital transformation. Leading brands like Audi, BMW, Liberty Global, Mercedes-Benz, Siemens, and Eli Lilly trust HiveMQ to modernize their operations, accelerate innovation, and create smarter, data-driven experiences.

The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Landshut, Germany, with offices across the globe.

HiveMQ’s Vision for this role

The HiveMQ Cloud Organization builds and operates our managed service offering. 

As a Senior Software Engineer in our Cloud Applications Team you will build and design scalable services which power our Cloud Console, enable backoffice operations for a variety of stakeholders, provision and manage thousands of HiveMQ Platform clusters. 

You will…

• Architect, implement, optimize and maintain our HiveMQ Cloud Console, Backoffice and other core services that manage HiveMQ Platform clusters.
• Build, maintain and refactor existing codebases, extend APIs, improve test coverage and address security vulnerabilities
• Develop new features for our customers and for internal stakeholders
• Work with Product Managers and other teams to envision and create new customer value.
• Live a culture of teamwork, quality, growth, drive to action and excellence
• Contribute to the overall developer experience, code quality and engineering vision of HiveMQ
• Learn everything about MQTT, distributed systems, IoT (theory, applications, best practices).

You have…

• A strong software engineering background (5+ years) and profound experience in architecting, developing and delivering modern and robust backend applications running in a JVM
• Solid experience in building, deploying and running Java applications in the cloud
• Worked extensively with Kubernetes and ArgoCD, having a good understanding on how they work
• The ability to solve problems independently and are driven towards execution
• A highly pragmatic approach paired with a high sense of ownership and the ability to work as a team
• A good understanding of how agile software engineering using Kanban works.
• Excellent English communication skills and able to work in a collaborative team environment
• Availability to work on call on a rotational basis

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