Job#: 3025296 Job Description: Senior Software Engineer (Hybrid - Nashville, TN) Contract (Green Badge) | 7 months | 40 hours/week | No OT/Weekends OverviewWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a high-impact engineering team supporting a
mission-critical real-time log analysis / log intelligence platform. This system operates at extreme scale (
~20TB/min, ingesting from
~9,000 sources) and requires exceptional attention to stability, correctness, and performance. The engineer will work closely with the team lead to safely enhance a
~20-year legacy codebase while also supporting design and implementation of new streaming capabilities.
Responsibilities- Enhance and maintain a high-throughput, low-latency real-time analytics platform with strict SLAs.
- Dive into and improve a mature legacy codebase (limited documentation / high complexity), implementing safe changes with strong risk awareness.
- Contribute to new streaming design and implementation while maintaining existing frameworks.
- Build and support event-driven services (or actor-based patterns where applicable) with operational excellence.
- Participate in a team culture focused on curiosity, bias for action, and deep attention to detail.
Required Qualifications- Prior internal Amazon experience (required)
- Senior-level engineering experience in production environments with meaningful operational impact
- Strong backend engineering skills in Java (Spring or similar)
- Strong working knowledge of Linux (comfort troubleshooting, logs, runtime behavior, basic systems fundamentals)
- Experience building/supporting distributed systems and/or event-driven architectures
- Ability to work hybrid onsite in Nashville, TN for the duration of the engagement
- Strong attention to detail, safe-change mindset, and ability to ramp quickly in ambiguolegacy environments
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with high-throughput + low-latency systems and strict SLAs
- AWS experience (ECS, EC2, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g., AWS CDK)
- Streaming/pipeline design experience (e.g., Kinesis/Kafka/Flink/Spark Streaming)
- Experience supporting experimentation / A/B testing frameworks
Interview Process- 1-hour technical interview (code + scenario-based)
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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