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Do you want to make a societal impact and contribute to Sweden's independence in the world? We are looking for you who are sharp and technically interested, and who want to develop and become constantly better. You are always hungry for new knowledge and want to use your precious time to make Sweden safer. At FRA, we work with unique tasks – for Sweden's security and integrity.

Your Mission

In the role of Software Engineer, you develop and maintain solutions that handle large amounts of data and extract and refine the relevant parts for subsequent systems for use in the organization's intelligence production and cybersecurity work. The world is changing, and so are the data needed in our work to protect our democracy. Therefore, continuous development takes place as new requirements arise.

You will be part of a team with overall responsibility for its systems. The team works agilely with development and operations, with great responsibility and mandate in the daily work in collaboration with strategic management based on the organization's needs and priorities. The team has close cooperation with other parts within the production of intelligence information, both with end users (analysts) and other technical teams.

In the team, you are responsible for building completely new production environments and capabilities, but also for maintaining and automating existing products. The systems are a mix of open source, in-house developed, and external products. You participate in design, architecture choices, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning/migration of these products, i.e., the entire lifecycle.

The team is part of a unit with two teams that focus mainly on system development/capability development and system integration against platforms/networks, respectively, for systems that handle large amounts of data for intelligence production and cybersecurity work. The role of Software Engineer can be placed in either of the two teams, depending on knowledge, experience, and interest.

We always strive for our employees to thrive and develop. We see this as a prerequisite for the team's efficiency. In the team, we encourage creativity and new thinking. We have depth and breadth in competence, and the cooperation in the group is strong. Through education, conferences, and our own environmental monitoring, we keep up to date with the latest technology. Together we evaluate and share insights.

You Can

We are looking for you who have:

• A university degree in computer science, systems science, or a similar field, or alternatively acquired equivalent competence through work experience
• Good knowledge of working in a Linux environment
• Good knowledge of Swedish and English in speech and writing

For us, it is important that you are curious, humble, and have a drive to learn new things. It is also an advantage for the position if you have experience from one or more of the following areas that you may encounter to varying degrees:

• Programming for system automation in Linux environments (e.g., Bash/shellscript, Python, Go)
• Hardware-near programming on Linux servers (primarily C, but also Rust)
• DPDK/XDP
• Kubernetes (e.g., RKE2)
• Container technology (e.g., Docker, Podman)
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Ansible, Puppet)
• GitOps and working automated against repos (e.g., ArgoCD)
• Networking (e.g., DNS, routing, firewalls, IP protocols, Snort/Suricata)
• Monitoring and metrics (e.g., Grafana/Prometheus, Kibana/Elasticsearch, Nagios/Checkmk)
• Physical server hardware
• Large data flows (e.g., various message buses or Apache NiFi)

You Are

We will place great emphasis on your personal qualities, and are looking for you who recognize yourself in the following characteristics:

• Collaboration – You work well with other people. You relate to them in a listening and smooth way and listen, communicate, and resolve conflicts in a constructive way.
• Self-starting – You take responsibility for your task, structure your own approach, and drive your processes forward.
• Goal- and result-oriented – You work towards goals and focus on results. You are guided by goal- and result thinking in prioritization, planning, and action, and change your direction when goals change.
• Problem-solving analytical ability – Work well with complex issues and use creativity to find new approaches. Analyze and break down problems into their components and solve complicated problems.

About FRA

FRA has the outside world as its arena where every task is part of something larger. In one way or another, you as an employee get to contribute to protecting Sweden's integrity and independence in the world. You are part of making a real difference, every day. Our task as an intelligence service is to protect Sweden against the most serious threats that can be directed against a society – military attacks, terrorism, and cyberattacks. We protect what is most important to us – our safety, our democracy, and our way of life. We are experts in the cyber area and signals intelligence and a siren for military threats. Since 2024, FRA has led the National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, whose task is to develop and strengthen Sweden's ability to prevent, detect, and handle cyber threats. For more information about FRA, visit www.fra.se (http://www.fra.se). For more information about the National Cyber Security Centre, visit www.ncsc.se (http://www.ncsc.se).

For your safety. For our democracy. Every day. All year round.

More Information

The workplace is located near Drottningholm, approx. 10 min from Brommaplan. Swedish citizenship is a requirement as employment at FRA involves placement in a security class. Before employment, you will be security checked in accordance with the provisions of the Security Protection Act. Employment entails an obligation to be war-placed. We apply a six-month probation period. In this recruitment process, work tests will be applied. For more information, you are welcome to contact the recruiting manager at [email protected]. Union representatives can be reached at 010-557 46 00.

We receive applications via www.fra.se by 2026-08-09 Reference number 2026FRA306-2

As we have already taken a stance on the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we decline to be contacted for further offers of advertising and recruitment assistance.

Keywords: Linux, RHEL, infrastructure, Bash, shellscript, Python, Go, GitOps, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, network, server, server hardware, automation, Ansible, C, Rust, Go

Employment Type: Permanent.
Duration: 6 months or longer.
Working Hours: Daytime.