Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer - Java/Go + Distributed Systems

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain and experience with agentic AI systems and orchestration workflows
• 7+ years of experience in Java/Go coding in a highly distributed and enterprise-scale environment
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services on AWS or Azure
• Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Strong database knowledge of SQL constructs and data modeling
• Strong experience with Identity governance and administration, Access Management

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience building full CI/CD systems leveraging Kubernetes, web service frameworks, and streaming data infrastructure like Apache Spark, Kafka, Druid, or ElasticSearch
• Experience building reliable data tiers using Postgres, Redis, Terraform, Ansible, graph databases like Neo4j or AWS Neptune, and developing GraphQL APIs
• Deep knowledge of identity and access management systems (Okta, SAML, OAuth), test automation, Python programming, and designing fault-tolerant distributed systems for networking or cloud security products

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