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Software Developer- Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina

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About the job

The Globalization Team is seeking a Software Developer who is passionate about building high-quality tools, services, and automation that improve the developer experience across SAS products. This role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions that help product teams deliver reliable, scalable, and globally-ready applications.

Working closely with developers, testers, product managers, and AI practitioners, you will contribute to engineering solutions that improve software quality, productivity, and development workflows. You will also have opportunities to learn and apply internationalization concepts and technologies as part of supporting software used by customers around the world.

• Design, develop, and maintain software, libraries, services, and developer tools that improve product quality, engineering efficiency, and platform capabilities.
• Build automation and tooling that simplify development, testing, analysis, and operational workflows across SAS product teams.
• Apply Agentic and Generative AI technologies responsibly to improve developer productivity, software quality, and engineering processes.
• Collaborate with developers, testers, product managers, and project managers to deliver robust software solutions that address real-world engineering challenges.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and engineering best practices that improve reliability and maintainability.
• Create technical documentation, reference materials, and developer guidance to support adoption of new capabilities.
• Learn and apply internationalization concepts and best practices to help ensure SAS products can effectively serve users worldwide.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of the following languages: Go, Python, C, Java, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining production software.
• Demonstrated experience using Generative AI and Agentic AI technologies to improve software development workflows or solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams including developers, testers, and product stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience using GitHub in a team environment, including branching strategies, pull requests, and code review processes.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence as part of an Agile development process, including issue tracking, planning, and documentation.
• Ability to adjust working hours to accommodate a variety of time zones
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. 

Additional competencies, knowledge, and skills

• Exposure to internationalization, localization, Unicode, ICU, CLDR, or multilingual software development.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with SAS programming or familiarity with SAS language, tools, or development environments.
• Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, or modern web technologies.
• Proficiency in an additional spoken language.

World-class benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include:
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

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Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. 

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