Senior DXP Platform Developer

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About Us SUSE is a global leader of  enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny. Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the flexibility to innovate everywhere—from the data center to multi-cloud and out to the edge. Only SUSE also manages many Linux and Kubernetes distributions. At SUSE, Choice Happens because we prioritize community, interoperability and relentless innovation. Discover how we power mission-critical resilience at www.suse.com. Senior DXP Platform Developer Job Description About UsAlways open. Our code, our culture, our opportunities. Leading open innovation without limits. We are SUSE. SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher and NeuVector. More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere – from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. We are open in our roots and open in our approach, striving to be the most trusted open innovator in the World. Openness extends beyond our technology. Our vibrant community thrives on diversity and connectivity without borders. The RoleSince its inception in 1992, SUSE has been at the forefront of technical innovation where change has been the only constant. The primary responsibility of this position is to lead cloud-native infrastructure architecture, automated deployment pipelines, and platform reliability across SUSE’s digital experience platform on a part-time basis. As a Level 09 Expert Individual Contributor, you are recognized as a key technical resource for DevOps and platform engineering within the Digital Experience function, defining standards, managing site reliability, and establishing scalable CI/CD frameworks that influence web operations across teams, sub-functions, and regions. This will support business growth in line with our ambitious objectives and company culture by maintaining highly secure, resilient, and performant web infrastructure. Critical to achieving excellent results will be your ability to solve highly complex cloud deployment challenges, automate digital delivery pipelines, and establish site reliability best practices within a flexible, part-time working arrangement. The role sits within the Digital Experience function, reporting to the Engineering Manager / Senior Manager, Digital Experience, who is globally based. Focus AreasOptimizely CMS Platform Mastery: Architecting scalable content models, APIs, head-to-head integrations, and content delivery networks on Optimizely CMS to support complex global web motions. Enterprise Web Engineering & Integration: Building secure, resilient backend systems that seamlessly integrate the CMS with MarTech, analytics, CRM, and cloud ecosystem platforms. Performance, Security & Operational Reliability: Championing global web performance standards, accessibility (WCAG), strict data privacy compliance, and zero-downtime reliability across B2B web environments. AI Adoption & Agentic Web Engineering: Proactively identifying and operationalizing emerging AI capabilities—from automated testing to real-time content personalization and developer efficiency tools. Collaborative Digital Product Engineering: Partnering in a high-velocity matrix with frontend engineers, UX/UI designers, marketing operations, and analytics teams to translate complex business needs into elegant digital solutions. Preferred Experience & Skills 5+ years of back-end software development experience delivering large-scale, high-impact enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems. Optimizely backend development expertise: Strong experience developing and extending enterprise websites using Optimizely CMS, with expertise in .NET/C#, APIs, integrations, content models, and backend services. Experience building scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions that connect Optimizely with frontend experiences, marketing technology, analytics, and other enterprise platforms. Demonstrable experience leading critical, cross-functional software projects with broad organizational reach and long-term business impact. Solid understanding of database systems architecture, high availability, query optimization, and data modeling across relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL/in-memory (Redis) databases. Excellent communication and strategic influence skills with the ability to articulate architectural decisions, navigate organizational ambiguity, and build consensus with executive leadership. Personal AttributesThe ideal candidate will embrace the transformative nature of this role. As we continue our evolution, we require you to build capability and institutionalize best practices within back-end software architecture. Questioning and challenging assumptions will be necessary to drive continuous architectural evolution, performance optimization, and system reliability. Your relationship building skills both with direct peers but also across the wider business will be critical, as will your ability to align back-end technical roadmaps with overarching product strategy. Dealing with ambiguity and being both resourceful and enterprising should be second nature to you when solving deeply intricate distributed systems challenges. Relentless focus on code quality, security, system performance, and technical precision. Energetic and passionate about open source technology, Linux systems, and empowering engineering teams to succeed. What Success Looks Like (Competency Level Alignment)As a contributor, you embody the following core SUSE competencies: Competencies by Career Level (2).pdf+ 1 Learnability (Advanced): You rapidly absorb new technologies inside and outside your domain, driving a continuous learning culture across departments, ensuring learning aligns with strategic goals, and measuring performance impact. Execution (Advanced): You manage the execution of complex back-end engineering projects across the department, aligning resource efforts with strategic objectives within scope, time, and budget. Strategic Thinking with Business Acumen (Advanced): You anticipate future software trends, balance short- and long-term goals, and shape back-end technical strategies that align directly with SUSE’s global vision. Adaptable Resilience (Intermediate): You demonstrate high resilience and adaptable problem-solving through intense, complex system release cycles, maintaining steady focus and stability. Influencing with Empathy (Intermediate): You maintain open communication and regularly persuade individual stakeholders and leadership groups to drive adoption of core architectural standards. Analytical Reasoning & Decision Making (Advanced): You systematically analyze complex, multi-faceted distributed systems challenges to make informed technical decisions that positively impact the broader engineering function. Self-Awareness (Advanced): You operate with deep introspection, emotional intelligence, and authenticity, actively leveraging feedback for continuous professional growth. Leading & Developing People (Intermediate): You align technical project goals with team growth, actively share expertise, and mentor peer software engineers and contributors. SUSE ValuesWe are passionate about customers We are respectful and inclusive We are empowered and accountable We are trustworthy and act with integrity We are collaborative We are SUSE! Your Life at SUSEBelonging: You can be yourself in a friendly, accommodation-o