Software Developer at RCSB PDB

🇺🇸 Piscataway, New Jersey 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $110K - $160K 💻 Software Engineering 🗓️ August 27th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Rutgers University is hiring a Software Developer at RCSB PDB. The role involves collaborating with scientists and developers to perform database updates, maintain database systems, improve performance, and develop data-intensive scientific applications related to structural biological data. The developer will also debug, test, and adapt legacy code while supporting high availability and quality in the PDB archives.

Highlights

Perform and monitor weekly update processes for PDB archives and implement improvements.

Extend and maintain new content types within the PDB data archives.

Build, support, and tune high-availability database systems, including indexing and query performance tuning.

Monitor database performance, apply patches, perform backups, and use high-speed transaction recovery techniques.

Design, develop, and deploy modern data-intensive scientific applications and refactor legacy code.

Required skills include database administration (MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB), Python programming, shell scripting, and knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, and integrity.

Preferred qualifications include experience with large scientific datasets, DBMS in cloud and on-premise environments, C++ programming, and strong problem-solving and communication skills.