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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Network Automation Engineer (EU) - **Company:** Megaport - **Location:** Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Automation of Tests, Code Coverage, Code Review, Computer Networks, Continuous Integration, Data Stores, Relational Databases, Perl (Programming Language), IP Routing, Multi-protocol Systems, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Management of Software Versions, Web Applications, Technical Debt, Backend, Cassandra, Restful APIs, Open Network Automation Platform - **Published:** July 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9c18249cc184f485 ## About the Role You're a senior engineer who is well respected by your peers, and know how to lead effectively. You find joy in making a product that customers love. You love taking ownership over your work and can balance managing technical debt with improving the user's experience / adding product features. You are interested in the newest technology and you'd like an environment where you can share your skills with like minded people on a no ego team. We're a tech company at our core and we have an interesting domain we work in. And we want you to join us!, * 5+ years of software development experience using Perl and frameworks like Mojolicious. * Experience working with relational databases using SQL (preferably PostgreSQL). * Working knowledge of using distributed datastores and NoSQL (Cassandra or similar). * Proven experience building backend services and tools within web application ecosystems. * Ability to act as a technical lead for small projects (typically up to 4 developers), offering architectural and design guidance. * Excellent collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. * Sharp logical reasoning skills and a habit of asking the right questions, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly and succinctly. * Determined to automate as much as possible so you can focus on the bigger picture. * An ability to reason logically, question appropriately and present technical information clearly and concisely. * Experience maintaining scalable versioned, secure REST APIs * Experience with networking concepts such as IP routing and MPLS ## Description * Contribute to enhancing our existing Perl code base powering our network automation systems and internal toolset. Implement new code using a modular approach with automated testing and reporting on code coverage. * Identify and reduce technical debt, improve performance and reliability, and participate in scaling decisions across our platform. * Build and maintain secure, scalable RESTful APIs. Ensure adherence to API standards, versioning practices, and monitoring instrumentation. * Play a key role in our release process by writing reliable tests, reviewing code rigorously, and contributing to CI/CD pipeline improvements. * Support the growth of junior engineers through pairing, thoughtful code reviews, and informal coaching. Promote sound design principles and foster a culture of continuous technical learning., Please see Part 2 of our Privacy Policy to see what information Megaport collects from job applicants, why, and how we store and use it. Note that you're entitled to know what personal data of yours Megaport holds, to request updates, rectification, and in some circumstances restriction or deletion thereof if you object (you being entitled to withdraw your consent to our holding your information at any time). Please see Part 5 of our Privacy Policy for more details on this and how to contact Megaport's data protection officer if you have any further privacy-related questions. Candidates who meet the selection criteria will be invited to attend an interview. 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