Technical Lead/Senior Software Engineer
Job Description
Technical Lead /Sr SW Engineer
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Engagement: Contract-to-Hire
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Location: San Jose CA (Hybrid - 3-day Onsite)
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Technical Lead /Sr SW Engineer - Infrastructure Telemetry & Capacity Planning Platform (Contractor)
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Overview
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We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead contractor to deliver hands-on software development for our Infrastructure Telemetry and Capacity Planning platform. This engagement covers the collection, streaming, processing, and persistence of telemetry data from various sources that contains utilization of servers and GPUs across our fleet, enabling efficient querying and dashboarding for capacity planning. The ideal contractor hits the ground running, engages actively in architecture design discussions, and drives execution with minimal ramp time.
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Required Qualifications
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- 10+ years of software development experience, with demonstrated technical execution on complex, large-scale data or infrastructure platforms
- Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python; hands-on experience with Spark and distributed data processing
- Deep, hands-on experience with AWS EMR (or spark) for large-scale data processing pipelines
- Experience with streaming data ingestion technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink) for high-volume telemetry data.
- Solid experience with NoSQL data stores (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) OR lakehouse/query engines such as Trino, including schema and partitioning strategies for efficient querying at scale
- Experience collecting and processing infrastructure telemetry using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana.
- Proven expertise in cloud-native architecture — high availability, extensibility; AWS preferred
- Familiarity with containerized deployment environments (Kubernetes, Docker) and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Windsurf, or equivalent) to accelerate delivery and maintain code quality
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to operate independently in an ambiguous environment
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Preferred Qualifications:
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- Working knowledge of capacity planning concepts — utilization forecasting, resource trending, and translating telemetry into actionable capacity signals
- Experience building dashboards and visualization layers for operational and reporting.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices.
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