Internationalization Software Engineer

About the job   

The Globalization Experience Team is searching for an Internationalization Software Engineer responsible for creating, enhancing, and maintaining robust software and tooling so SAS products work correctly for global users across languages, locales, and character sets. This role focuses on building and integrating foundational internationalization capabilities—Unicode correctness, locale‑sensitive formatting and sorting, and string externalization/resource management—while partnering with product teams to embed best practices early in the software development cycle. You’ll also use AI-assisted techniques (when appropriate) to accelerate analysis, automation, and documentation, helping teams deliver global-ready software efficiently and consistently.

As an Internationalization AI Software Developer, you will:   

• Design, develop, and maintain software, libraries, and tooling that enable product teams to efficiently build high‑quality, global‑ready software in compliance with SAS Internationalization guidelines and standards.
• Work effectively in mature and legacy code to resolve customer-impacting defects, coordinating with support and product teams to deliver patch updates for high-priority fixes with strong testing and regression awareness to protect production behavior
• Partner closely with cross‑functional stakeholders—including product development teams, product managers, project managers, support engineers, and testers—to integrate internationalization best practices early and throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with internationalization testers to guide testing strategies, investigate defects, and drive engineering improvements that result in high‑quality, globally usable product deliverables.
• Use AI-assisted tools responsibly as part of day‑to‑day engineering (e.g., accelerating code review and refactoring suggestions, log/defect triage, test generation, and documentation) while ensuring correctness, traceability, and alignment with SAS development standards.

Required qualifications 

• 3+ years of experience as a software developer, with hands‑on experience applying internationalization best practices and working with industry‑standard libraries such as ICU and CLDR.
• Experience using modern developer productivity tools (including AI-assisted coding and review tools) to improve delivery speed and quality, with an understanding of validation practices (tests, reviews, and responsible use).
• Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: Go, Python, and C, with the ability to read, understand, and contribute to production codebases.
• Working proficiency in shell scripting (e.g., Bash or similar) to support automation, tooling, or development workflows.
• 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
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills  

• Experience with SAS programming or familiarity with SAS language, tools, or development environments.
• Experience with TypeScript and Java Script a plus.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, including build, test, or deployment automation.
• Proficiency in additional spoken language.