Software Engineer

Title: Software Development EngineerLocation: Santa Clara, CADuration: 6+ months contractPayrate: $102/hr on w2Primary duties of this contracting position will beCreate simulation framework for the Portworx Enteprise Control Plane to run clusters of 1000s of nodes without hardware contraintsRefactor and redesign internal product interfaces to enable simulation and remove hardware dependencyRecommend & impement clean software abstraction in the ProductExperimenting with new technologies in order to push the state-of-the-art and innovate new solutionsSkills: Experience with heavy use of Claude Code, Codex or Cursor for AI-lead developmentExperience with Golang (Advance level) and Kubernetes8+ years of experience in Designing, Development and Testing of Enterprise products (Golang preferred).BS in Computer Science requiredGood understanding of Microservice Architectures and Cloud Native platformsDesigning micro services to operate and scale in a distributed system architecture that scales to thousands of nodesProven design sensibility and the willingness to work in a collaborative, team oriented environment.Solid CS background in data structures, algorithms and software design.Education: Will be working on a specific projectLarge scale distributed system running on KubernetesRole of the contractor is to create a simulation project where without needing real hardware you can simulate a scale like this where on one machine you can run an entire cluster of 1000s of nodesAll will be in GOLANG, candidate experience with this language REQUIRED.Should have good working knowledge of distributed systems and KubernetesAnybody who has done Golang development on Kubernetes with multi-node or distributed systems will be a good match.Should be an AI native - have used AI to code from the ground up and understand how to use Claude Code, Codex or Cursor