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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer (HPC Sustainability) - **Company:** European Molecular Biology Laboratory - **Location:** Hinxton, UK - **Salary:** £41,424.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Code Review, Concurrent Computing, Information Engineering, Data Transformation, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Message Broker, Open Source Technology, GitHub Copilot, Grafana, Backend, Git, Pytest, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines, Web Api - **Published:** September 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5889010003 ## About the Role This is a technically demanding role for someone who is equally comfortable working independently in a production codebase and collaborating across organisational boundaries., * Strong experience writing production-grade Python, with a focus on data pipelines, concurrent processing, and clean, maintainable code. This is a backend data engineering role, not web API development. * Solid experience with PostgreSQL and time-series data management. Familiarity with TimescaleDB including continuous aggregates is an advantage, as is comfort with both psycopg2 and psycopg3. * Working knowledge of Apache Kafka as a message broker: consumer groups, offset management, and event-driven pipeline design. Kafka is a core component of EBI's real time job monitoring system. * Confidence working with pandas DataFrames for data transformation, aggregation, and analysis used extensively in the Green Algorithms codebase. * Proficient with Git, pytest, ruff, and Poetry. Able to contribute effectively to a collaborative open-source environment with CI/CD pipelines. * Proficiency in agentic coding and AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) to accelerate development within a well-structured codebase. * Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to work across two independent teams (EBI and Cambridge), translate technical trade-offs into clear proposals, and build consensus with stakeholders from different organisational backgrounds. You may also have * Prior experience contributing to open-source projects, including code review, documentation, and working within established. * Experience building or modifying Grafana dashboards programmatically. * Genuine interest in green computing and the environmental impact of scientific infrastructure. ## Description EMBL-EBI's HPC infrastructure underpins world-leading bioinformatics research, operating large-scale compute clusters on behalf of scientific users across the institute. The HPC sub team sits within IT and Technical Services (ITS) and is responsible for the reliability, operation, and ongoing development of these clusters and their supporting tooling., * Develop and maintain Python based backend services that process HPC job telemetry and compute per job energy consumption and carbon footprint metrics. * Contribute to the Green Algorithms open source project, working in close collaboration with the Cambridge GA team to integrate EBI's real time job monitoring capabilities into the shared GA codebase. * Work with time series databases to ensure efficient storage, aggregation, and retrieval of large scale HPC telemetry data. * Extend and improve carbon and energy reporting tooling, including alignment with established methodologies (e.g., regional carbon intensity, memory energy, GPU utilisation weighting). * Support the development of Grafana based dashboards that give HPC users and stakeholders visibility into the environmental impact of their workloads. * Contribute to wider HPC sustainability initiatives within EBI, including documentation, user guidance, and participation in the E-SCOUT international trial. * Produce clear technical documentation and actively share knowledge within the team. ## Related Videos - [A Hitchhiker's Guide to Resource Efficient Software](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1414-a-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-resource-efficient-software) - [Web APIs you might not know about](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/281-web-apis-you-might-not-know-about) - [pytest: Simple, rapid and fun testing with Python](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/213-pytest-simple-rapid-and-fun-testing-with-python) - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [Project Fugu: Extending the web](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/832-project-fugu-extending-the-web) - [Automagic Configuration in Python](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/363-automagic-configuration-in-python) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [A Guide to Green Tech and Green IT Careers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/374-a-guide-to-green-tech-and-green-it-careers) - [Top 6 Hackathons for Developers in 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/263-top-6-hackathons-for-developers-in-2023) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk)