About the Role
Join the team as a Backend Developer and help us build system flows that power the next generation of our platform.
At this unique team, we develop like a startup
Bias for Action: We move fast, test, learn, and iterate. Perfection is less important than progress.
Ownership Mindset: Every challenge is ours to solve. We don’t escalate – we engage.
Customer Obsession: We build with the user in mind, not just the spec in hand.
Lean & Focused: We do fewer things, better. We focus on what matters most.
Cross-Functional Unity: We break silos. All disciplines move as one team.
AI First: We embrace innovation and autonomy, encouraging team members to make technical decisions and learn from failures.
Direct Communication: We value proactive, transparent communication and expect everyone to push status and raise issues early.
How We Work
Jira is our central hub for specs, bugs, and pull requests.
Agile ceremonies are adapted to team needs, with demos and retrospectives as core practices.
Developers are responsible for both code and quality, including automation and risk-based testing.
We measure success by developer productivity, innovation, and our ability to deliver together.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement and test robust backend system flows, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
Collaborate closely with system and HW teams to deliver integrated SW solutions.
Take full ownership of features from design through deployment, including quality and automation aspects.
Participate in agile ceremonies, demos, and retrospectives, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.
Proactively communicate status, raise flags early, and engage directly with team members across disciplines.
Operate, manage, and troubleshoot containerized workloads in Kubernetes-based environments.
Contribute to DevOps pipelines, CI/CD processes, monitoring, and production reliability.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of backend development experience.
Experience in C# or Java.
Strong proficiency with Linux environments.
Solid understanding of modern development methodologies, including code reviews, automation, and risk-oriented testing.
Proven hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments:
Cluster provisioning, upgrades, scaling, resource management.
Troubleshooting cluster and workload issues.
Experience with Kubernetes operators, network policies, storage, and observability stacks.
Strong DevOps capabilities, including experience with
CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Helm, Kustomize, Terraform)
Monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK)
Containerization (Docker) and secure software supply chain principles
A genuine passion for technology, innovation, and building impactful solutions in a dynamic environment.
Team player with strong communication and mentoring skills.
Self-learning and ability to understand complex systems.
Fluent in English.
Advantage
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
A proven leadership experience.
Working in an Agile environment.
Experience as a SW developer in multi-disciplinary products.
Working in a global company or large-scale High-Tech company.
Additional Information
Time Type
Full time
Employee Type
Assignee / Regular
Travel
Yes, 10% of the Time
Relocation Eligible
No
Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
