Software Development Engineer 3

Job Title: Software Development Engineer 3

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Software Development Engineer 3opportunity with our client located in Santa Clara, CA.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build highly scalable distributed systems that leverage event-based and streaming data pipelines to handle ingestion and processing of robot, manufacturing, and clinical data
• Enable users by providing self-service APIs and applications to access and interact with data
• Work closely with core engineering teams to consistently evolve data models based on growing business needs
• Apply software development best practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and microservice architectures
• Effectively participate in the team’s planning, code reviews, KPI reviews, and design discussions leading to continuous improvement in these areas.

Job Qualifications:

• Exceptional quantitative background (Computer Science, Math, Physics, and/or Engineering), or at least 5+ years of industry experience in a quantitative role
• Fluent coding with Python and Java
• Proven experience building data pipelines and working with distributed systems using technologies such as Kafka/Flink, Snowflake, AWS Lambdas
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven understanding of best engineering practices, such as unit testing and integration testing, and deployment patterns.
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with SQL and relational databases
• Ability and enthusiasm to work collaboratively and cross-functionally, and take end-to-end ownership to deliver results for customers.

Nice To Have:

• Experience on a Platform team
• Experience with Gitlab CI/CD or other CI tooling
• Experience with Apache Iceberg
• Experience with Terraform and general IaC best practices
• You’re familiar with CNCF projects and have successfully used them in the past.

Job Details:

• Job Type: Contract
• Pay Range: $75-$83 an hour.
• Location: Santa Clara, CA (Onsite)

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.