Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

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Renesas Electronics
Published
May 6, 2026
Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Job Type

Senior Software Engineer (Platform): our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role: An experienced platform software engineer to develop and operate complex cloud-native applications and infrastructure for an electronics design cloud platform.
  • The Person: Design, build and operate complex cloud-native platform services and APIs, work on large-scale data processing and distributed high-load systems, and influence platform architecture and engineering standards.
  • Requirements: .NET Core, .NET Framework 4.8, MySQL, AWS, Microservices, GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes experience with 6+ years of .NET required.

Job Description

Job Description

Why A365 Software Engineering?

Build the cloud platform that’s transforming electronics design. Altium 365 for cloud lets design engineers communicate, collaborate and bring their ideas to market more efficiently than any platform in the industry. These are some of the R&D Software Engineering contributions you might make to Altium 365:    

  • Building new cloud-native applications and scalable infrastructure
  • Utilizing AI and ML to power advanced search capabilities
  • Large-scale data processing; data modelling; holistic, intent-based API design
  • Stateful and stateless servers, relational databases, ORM frameworks

Altium offers the opportunity to conceive and build new product features for electronics engineers, and add your own ideas to the world’s most collaborative and efficient electronics design platform.

A day in the Life of our Senior Software Engineer 
Your primary role will be product development for complex cloud applications with the Altium 365 Platform team.

Technologies We Use

  • .NET Core, .NET Framework 4.8., MySQL
  • AWS cloud
  • Microservices
  • GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.

Qualifications

What We're looking for

  • 6+ years of .NET experience
  • Deep expertise in one or more of these areas:
    identity and authentication, access or license management, message queues/brokers,
    distributed caches, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, relational database design and optimization, 
    platform framework development, multi-tenancy, Rings Protection Model in cloud development
  • Proven experience building and operating distributed, high-load systems, including performance profiling, optimisation, load testing, and stress testing
  • Strong ability to solve complex technical challenges that differ from typical market products, combining engineering software and cloud services
  • Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and drive architectural decisions
  • Experience defining and driving engineering standards, best practices, and technical governance at a platform level

Nice to have

  • Firebird, Oracle, Postgres.
  • Azure/GCP/AliCloud

Additional Information

  • Altium’s Website ( http://altium.com )
  • Altium Customer Stories ( https://www.youtube.com/@AltiumStories )

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

  • Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  
  • Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 
  • Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

  • Employment Type: Regular (PERM)
  • Remote Work Available: No
  • Key Skills
    ? Key Skills in dark blue have been inferred based on similar industry roles
    .NET Core .NET Framework C# Gitlab Elasticsearch Azure GCP ML Microservices R Mysql AWS Kubernetes Docker Jenkins

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