Looking for Senior Staff Engineer - Redwood City, CA

Redwood City, CA, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 2 days ago
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6 Months
On-site
$90 - $92/hr
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Skills

  • Apache Flink
  • Apache Kafka
  • Computer Hardware
  • Data Analysis
  • Java
  • MDT
  • Management
  • ITIL
  • Messaging
  • Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
  • Network
  • Real-time
  • PostgreSQL
  • Parallel Computing
  • Storage
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • High Availability
  • Orchestration

Summary

Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer

Location: Redwood City, CA

Duration: 6+ Months

Job Description:

The Senior Staff Engineer for NPE Observability is the preeminent technical strategist for Equinix s global telemetry fabric. In this senior contract role, you will bridge the gap between high-scale distributed software and global network hardware, driving the architectural standards for our most complex data-intensive initiatives

  • Core Stack Evolution: Architect and optimize our primary ingestion and storage engines utilizing Java and PostgreSQL, ensuring high availability and performance at scale.
  • Real-Time Data Orchestration: Lead the design of high-throughput messaging systems using Apache Kafka to handle trillions of telemetry points with sub-second latency.
  • Stream Processing Mastery: Architect massively parallel processing pipelines and stateful stream processing frameworks (utilizing tools like Apache Flink) to enable real-time anomaly detection.
  • Advanced R&D: Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies such as Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT) and ClickHouse/Thanos for long-term metric storage and high-cardinality data analysis.
  • Service Standards: Define and monitor critical SLI/SLO metrics (e.g., P95 response times) to ensure the platform maintains world-class performance and global ITIL compliance.
  • Incident Authority: Serve as the senior point of contact for complex root-cause analysis, identifying architectural weaknesses in the Java/Kafka/Postgres stack to prevent future outages.

Required Qualifications & Experience
Tenure: 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering and distributed systems.
Domain Expertise: 5+ years of experience specifically in large-scale network engineering, telemetry, or observability platforms.
Java Expert: Mastery of Java for building high-performance, scalable backend services.
Data & Messaging: Deep expertise in PostgreSQL (schema design and tuning) and Apache Kafka (cluster architecture and stream management).

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  • Dice Id: xorca001
  • Position Id: 8972704
  • Posted 2 days ago

Company Info

About Xoriant Corporation

Xoriant is a Sunnyvale, CA headquartered digital engineering firm with offices in the USA, Europe, and Asia. From Tech Startups to Fortune 100 Enterprises, we enable innovation, accelerate time to market, and ensure client competitiveness across industries. Across all our focus areas – platform engineering, cloud, data & and AI, and Security – every solution we develop benefits from our product engineering DNA and culture of innovation. It also includes successful methodologies, framework components, and accelerators for rapidly solving critical client challenges. For 30 years and counting, we have taken great pride in the longlasting, deep relationships we have with our clients.

For further information about Xoriant, please visit our website

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