Software Engineer at The RIPE NCC

Hybrid: from home and our office at Amsterdam Central station

Full-time: based on 37.5 hours per week (working part-time is possible)

Salary: up to EUR 80.000 plus excellent secondary benefits (see below)

Important: you should be living in the Netherlands or willing to relocate

At the RIPE NCC, we develop software with a significant impact on the core of the Internet. As a Software Engineer, you’ll become part of a diverse and talented team and work on projects that contribute to this cause. Are you a Software Engineer and want to become part of our team? Then this is the place for you!

You will be developing software that allows our members (ISPs, governments, universities, etc.) to manage their Internet number resources (IPs and ASNs), develop applications for our internal users to support our members, and also work on services that are fundamental to the operational aspects of the Internet.

🧠 In this role, you will:

• Be involved in defining pragmatic and maintainable technical solutions for challenging problems.

• Lead and provide clear directions in software projects.

• Develop new features working on back-end and front-end.

• Maintain and extend our existing services.

• Write, test, and deploy your code.

• Work with our DevOps engineers to maintain and improve our CI/CD pipelines.

• After a year, provide 24/7 stand-by shifts once every 4-6 weeks (extra compensation in addition to your regular salary).

• Mentor and guide junior software engineers from a content perspective.

👀 What we’re looking for:

• Minimum a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or in a related engineering field) OR a minimum of five years of professional work experience in software engineering.

• Experience with JVM.

• Experience working on the full stack, including infrastructure, back-end and front-end

• Pragmatic approach to problem solving.

• Strong communication and team-player skills. Our ideal new colleague is eager to learn and likes to share knowledge with others.

• Fluency in English.

We would also appreciate:

• Being comfortable with UNIX-like OSs.

• Experience with Angular or React.

• Experience with containers and Kubernetes.

• Experience with cloud solutions like AWS.

📢 What you can expect from us:

• An opportunity to work on software that matters and carve your footprint on innovative projects.

• A modern, flexible, and informal work environment with an emphasis on a healthy work/life balance.

• Flexible work-from-home policy, so you can arrange your weekly office and 'working from home' days in a way that works for you. Working from abroad for a number of days per year is also possible.

• An annual salary of up to EUR 80.000 (before tax). This includes the standard 8% annual “holiday pay”.

• Excellent secondary benefits: 5% end-of-year allowance, annual budgets for health, transportation, and technology purposes, non-contributory pension scheme, paid parental leave, top-tier health insurance coverage for you and your family, and 33 vacation days (full-time).

• A generous training allowance per year, which can be used for professional development.

• Organisation-wide internal training program designed to develop critical soft skills—like feedback, resilience, and leadership—giving you the tools to excel in your career and beyond.

• An in-house free barista providing healthy varied lunches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and nice breakfasts on Thursdays, plus monthly office social events.

• Casual team events such as: Team outings, Christmas party and a summer BBQ.

👥 The Software Engineering Department

We are a vibrant team of 45 talented, diverse, multicultural engineers who love working for the good of the Internet and are eager to learn from each other and evolve our skills through collaboration. You will mainly be working and interacting with about ten colleagues. We highly value best practices, such as clean coding, code reviews, automated tests, continuous integration (CI), and few-click deployments. As in a proper Agile environment, we work as a team, and we rely on good communication.

🛜 About the RIPE NCC

The RIPE NCC is a not-for-profit organisation founded on the belief that the Internet should be governed openly, transparently and together with the wider Internet community. We are one of the oldest Internet organisations in Europe and are proud of our legacy.

Our strength is our staff. We bring together more than 180+ people from over 44 countries in our modern, vibrant office in the east wing of Amsterdam Central Station. Currently, we have a hybrid way of working and allow our staff to work from their homes and the office. Our official working language is English, but our colleagues speak more than 30 languages.

Our backgrounds are diverse, but our goal is the same: we work for the good of the Internet. Will you join us?

📋 How to apply

If interested, please click the ‘Apply’ button and submit your CV and cover letter in English. Adding a cover letter is highly important and appreciated, our team read them carefully.

Not ready to apply yet? Then send me an email to [email protected] and we can have an informal chat.

At the RIPE NCC, we are proud to serve our members and the RIPE community in 76 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. We celebrate unique perspectives and talents from different backgrounds and cultures. So if you're passionate about what you do and want to help shape the future of the Internet, apply now - we'd love to hear your story.

Please note that due to the nature of our activities, we will require successful candidates to follow a pre-employment screening (conducted by our partner Validata). This involves carrying out a background check and sharing education certificates.