Job Description

Perforce is a community of collaborative experts, problem solvers, and possibility seekers who believe work should be both challenging and fun. We are proud to inspire creativity, foster belonging, support collaboration, and encourage wellness. At Perforce, you’ll work with and learn from some of the best and brightest in business. Before you know it, you’ll be in the middle of a rewarding career at a company headed in one direction: upward.    

With a global footprint spanning more than 80 countries and including over 75% of the Fortune 100, Perforce Software, Inc. is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions for the toughest challenges. The best run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce.  

Position Summary:

We are looking for our next Principal Software Developer who enjoys problem solving and writing great code. Our mission is to make sure that our customer’s source code is bug and vulnerability free. Some of the top tech companies in automotive, space, aeronautics, telecom, medical devices and more rely on us to prevent showstopper bugs and vulnerabilities from being shipped. Chances are, you own or have recently used some technology that was scanned by Klocwork!  You’ll be helping create, update and maintain the many tools needed to fit source code analysis into our customer’s varying development workflows. 

Klocwork is a market leader in code analysis and has extremely accurate static code analyzers for C and C++ programming languages. It's a modern, highly performant and flexible static code analyzer that scales to projects of any size and works effectively within the DevOps cycle. 

Responsibilities:

• • Peer-review the work of other software designers and mentor them 
  • Act as an advisor to your functional leaders 
  • Continuously review and make recommendations to improve processes, tools and implementation 
  • Collaborate with other engineers to develop and enhance a wide range of static code analysis tools. 
  • Participate in high level system design and implementation of significant new features. 
  • Plan and develop tests on software changes and new features. 
  • Maintain existing software through bug fixes and enhancements. 
  • Create clean, well-tested code and deliver the highest quality software. 
  • Provide task estimates and accurately report progress as part of an Agile process. 
  • Clearly and regularly communicate with management and technical support colleagues on project status, potential issues and progress. 
  • Proficiency with efficient algorithm design, data structures and design patterns. 
  • Demonstrate understanding of projects from both client and business perspectives.

Requirements:

• • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)  
  • 12+ years development experience with C/C++ 
  • 5+ years in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
  • Experience working with web containers (e.g., Tomcat, Node, React) and database access layers (e.g., SQL) 
  • Development experience in both Windows and Linux environments. 
  • Knowledge and experience with compilers or static code analysis a very strong asset. 
  • Experience and/or interest to work with other programming languages (e.g., Java, C#) is an asset.