Description
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own the design, development, and operation of core backend and platform infrastructure — from Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native services to APIs and developer tooling. You'll partner closely with Product, AI, and Security teams to align architecture with business objectives, drive engineering excellence through code quality and CI/CD best practices, and serve as a mentor and multiplier for the broader engineering organization.
Hybrid in Palo Alto, CA 94304
Pay Rate - $70-$85/hr on W2
6-month Contract with possibility to extend or convert perm
For a Large Tech Company
Required Experience & Skills
- 6+ years of software engineering experience with a deep backend and infrastructure focus.
- Strong production programming skills in Python and/or Go — you ship code, not just scripts and configs.
- Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience building and operating clusters (not just deploying to them).
- Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments.
- Cloud-native fluency across AWS and/or GCP — compute, storage, IAM, networking, and managed services.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with applied AI tooling and agentic AI frameworks (e.g., Claude, LiteLLM, AI gateways) and the ability to build backend services that integrate with them.
- Strong system design and architectural judgment.
- Clear communicator who partners well across product, security, and AI teams.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with observability stacks — Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry.
- Multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, on-prem).
- Familiarity with API gateways, AI gateways, and policy/authorization frameworks (ABAC, OPA).
- Service mesh or platform-as-a-service design experience.
- Track record of improving engineering productivity at scale.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field preferred. Equivalent professional experience will be considered.
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