Software Engineer, SaaS

Software Engineer, SaaS Job Locations RO-Cluj-Napoca Req No. 2026-7930 Category Engineering Riverbed. Empower the Experience Riverbed, the leader in AI observability, helps organizations optimize their user’s experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed’s open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimize digital experiences and greatly improves IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading Acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 – we are empowering next-generation digital experiences.

Position Position : Software Engineer

Location : Cluj (Hybrid)

We are searching for a motivated Software Engineer to contribute to design and development of our SaaS Aternity platform.

Aternity is a Digital Experience Management (DEM) platform that provides real ‑ time visibility into end ‑ user experience across devices, applications, and networks. It combines endpoint telemetry, application performance data, and AI ‑ driven analytics to proactively identify, diagnose, and remediate performance issues affecting employee productivity. Aternity supports physical, virtual, and cloud environments and integrates with IT operations and service management workflows to enable data ‑ driven decisions and faster incident resolution.

What you will do

• Design and develop SaaS micro-services with complex performance, scale, and high availability considerations
• Provide production support, troubleshoot distributed systems, and resolve critical issues
• Identify, assess, and remediate security vulnerabilities across the technology stack
• Own the entire lifecycle of your domain - from architecture and implementation to monitoring, optimization, and continuous improvement
• Participate in CI/CD processes, code reviews, and architectural design decisions
• Leverage AI development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) throughout the development lifecycle for code generation, refactoring, debugging, test creation, documentation, and technical analysis
• Collaborate with DevOps, product owners, management, and cross-functional stakeholders What makes you an ideal candidate
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology (or equivalent)
• 3+ years of backend development experience with strong Object-Oriented programming skills, specifically Java
• Proficient with modern AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.) - actively using them for code generation, debugging, refactoring, test creation, security analysis, and documentation - not just as autocomplete but as intelligent development partners
• Proven experience troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with SaaS technologies: microservices architecture, Kafka, high availability patterns, and big data performance optimization
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Docker, and AWS services
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Can-do attitude with strong problem-solving skills, proactive mindset, and intellectual curiosity
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with experience in agile methodologies
• Big Plus: Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, BitBucket, and deep CI/CD expertise What we offer Our employee benefits including flexible workplace policies, employee resource groups, learning and development resources, career progression pathways, and community engagement initiatives are some of the reasons why we have had great success in bringing in new talent. In addition, our global employee wellness programs are crafted to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of our employees.

Benefits & Perks vary by Country.

About Riverbed With a 20-year history of innovation, Riverbed is agile, yet proven, and we are disrupting the market with differentiated solutions that enable our customers to deliver secure, seamless digital experiences and accelerate enterprise performance While we are a ‘customer-first’ company, we are all about our people with a shared commitment to creating a global impact. We bring our best selves to work and pursue excellence, trust, and respect for one another. We welcome and encourage transparency and open communication throughout the company. We strive to be an inclusive, fair, and enjoyable workplace for our people globally and care about their wellbeing. We are committed to our people, partners, and customers while supporting the communities where we work and live. It’s the Power of WE that binds us together.

Riverbed is an equal employment opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or child birth (including breast feeding), sexual orientation, genetics, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other basis protected by and in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Check us out on: www.riverbed.com @LifeAtRiverbed

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