Senior SW Designer - Cloud Native
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About the role
About This Opportunity
Join a cross-functional team in Pagani, Italy, working on cloud-native telecom products. As a Senior Software Designer, you will play a leading role in designing and developing the software that powers Ericsson’s licensing and entitlement capabilities. You will work in an international environment, collaborating closely with a cross-functional-agile team to build scalable, secure and robust services that enable efficient license management and usage control across Ericsson products.
Beyond hands-on design, you will act as a technical reference representing a small team of engineers, guiding day-to-day work, ensuring technical alignment and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaborative problem solving. The team works according to Lean and Agile principles and values knowledge sharing at every stage.
If you are an experienced cloud-native engineer ready to take ownership of architecture decisions and team delivery, we encourage you to apply.
What You Will Do
Architecture & Design
Define complete end-to-end cloud-native architectures that meet functional, performance and scalability requirements
Analyze application footprint and assess resource consumption, infrastructure requirements and capacity sizing
Determine scalability constraints and define appropriate sizing strategies for compute, storage and networking
Design and document comprehensive cloud-native solutions, ensuring alignment with product and engineering standards
Engineering & Delivery
Analyze requirements and identify practical opportunities for software features and intelligent automation
Design, implement and test cloud-native components, services and data pipelines
Build and maintain containerized applications and CI/CD pipelines
Integrate modern software capabilities — including data processing, monitoring and automation tooling — where relevant to product needs
Troubleshoot complex issues, support integration activities and produce clear, maintainable product documentation
Contribute to product lifecycle activities and to the evolution of standards, guidelines and best practices
Stay current with emerging technologies and proactively propose improvements to products and processes
Team Coordination
Coordinate and provide technical direction to a small team of software engineers supporting planning, prioritization and workload distribution across team members
Act as a mentor and technical escalation point, promoting quality, consistency and growth within the team
Collaborate closely with product owners, SW designers and cross-functional stakeholders
You Will Bring
Experience & Education
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
A minimum of 5 years of experience in cloud-native software engineering or design roles
A minimum of 2 years of experience in team coordination or technical leadership
Technical Skills
Strong, proven experience in end-to-end cloud-native software design and architecture
Demonstrated ability to evaluate performance, scalability and capacity sizing for distributed systems
Proficiency in performing footprint analysis to estimate compute, storage and networking needs
Strong programming skills in Python, Go or Java, with familiarity in scripting languages such as Bash
Solid hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms and container technologies, including Kubernetes and Docker
Deep understanding of software design principles, distributed architecture patterns and object-oriented design
Experience with CI/CD tooling, automation frameworks and agile product development practices
Practical knowledge of AI/ML concepts; experience with model development, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation or vector databases is a strong plus
Soft Skills
Strong analytical, planning and structured problem-solving skills
Ability to communicate technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Collaborative approach with a continuous learning mindset
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross-functional and geographically diverse environment
Languages
Fluent English and Italian
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
Primary country and city: Italy (IT) || Pagani
Req ID: 786601
Starting Salary in Primary Location: EUR 43200.0
The position includes benefits and employment conditions in accordance with the Telecomunications National Collective Labour Agreement and Company-Union Agreements.
We believe in rewarding talent fairly and transparently. We remain flexible to ensure we attract and retain exceptional people. Final offers may vary depending on experience, skill and other factors aligned with our Total Rewards philosophy.
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