Product Software Arch and Eng Senior Staff
Our Client, a Digital Infrastructure company, is looking for a Product Software Arch and Eng Senior Staff for their Redwood City, CA location.Responsibilities:Architectural Strategy & Technical VisionCore Stack Evolution: Architect and optimize our primary ingestion and storage engines utilizing Java and PostgreSQL, ensuring high availability and performance at scale.Real-Time Data Orchestration: Lead the design of high-throughput messaging systems using Apache Kafka to handle trillions of telemetry points with sub-second latency.Unified Visibility: Define the global standard for observability visualization in Grafana, building complex, high-performance dashboards that aggregate data from diverse telemetry sources.High-Scale Engineering & InnovationStream Processing Mastery: Architect massively parallel processing pipelines and stateful stream processing frameworks (utilizing tools like Apache Flink) to enable real-time anomaly detection.Advanced R&D: Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies such as Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT) and ClickHouse/Thanos for long-term metric storage and high-cardinality data analysis.Technical Roadmap Ownership: Drive the engineering team toward key milestones, ensuring the code we ship aligns with the 3–5 year long-term NPE vision.Reliability & Systemic LeadershipService Standards: Define and monitor critical SLI/SLO metrics (e.g., P95 response times) to ensure the platform maintains world-class performance and global ITIL compliance.Incident Authority: Serve as the senior point of contact for complex root-cause analysis, identifying architectural weaknesses in the Java/Kafka/Postgres stack to prevent future outages.Stakeholder Synthesis: Translate complex product requirements into deep technical specifications, managing relationships with both internal software teams and external network vendors.Requirements:Tenure: 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering and distributed systems.Domain Expertise: 5+ years of experience specifically in large-scale network engineering, telemetry, or observability platforms.Java Expert: Mastery of Java for building high-performance, scalable backend services.Data & Messaging: Deep expertise in PostgreSQL (schema design and tuning) and Apache Kafka (cluster architecture and stream management).Visualization: Expert-level proficiency in Grafana for creating enterprise-level observability dashboards.Large-Scale Systems: Proven experience with Prometheus, Thanos, or ClickHouse and working within a structured Agile/Scrum environment.Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.Why Should You Apply?Excellent growth and advancement opportunities