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Senior Software Engineer

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Sunnyvale, California - · 4+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 7, 2026

At a glance

Experience
4+ years experience
Employment
Full-time
Workplace
Onsite
Location
Sunnyvale, California -

About the role

  • The Senior Software Engineer will develop containerized microservices for a distributed multi-tenant system that processes network telemetry and real-time events from public clouds. This role involves owning the full software development lifecycle, from architectural design to operational support, while mentoring junior team members.

Responsibilities

  • Develop containerized microservices for a distributed multi-tenant system.
  • Process data, real-time events, and network telemetry from public clouds.
  • Design service architecture and defend designs before peers.
  • Mentor junior engineers, new-grads, and interns.
  • Write code primarily in Go and work with data pipelines using SQL.
  • Own critical features and subsystems throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Manage operational aspects of the system to ensure supportability.
  • Ensure code quality through developer testing and functional/integration testing.
  • Partner with Product Management to review and refine requirements.
  • Interact with stakeholders to understand fundamental customer problems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • 4+ years of experience building distributed and scalable software and systems.
  • Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP at the API/programming level.
  • Experience in Go and SQL.
  • REST API client experience.
  • General TCP/IP networking knowledge.
  • Unix/Linux programming environment experience.
  • Capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.

Preferred qualifications

  • Master’s degree
  • Experience with networking and security controls
  • Experience delivering containerized services using Kubernetes
  • CloudFormation
  • Terraform
  • Ansible

Workplace

  • 5 on-site days a week in Sunnyvale, CA headquarters.

Skills

  • Go
  • SQL
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • REST API
  • CloudFormation
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • TCP/IP
  • Unix
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  • Linux

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