Software Development Engineer (Sunnyvale, CA)

• Please note that our customer is currently not considering applicants from the following locations: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee.***
  
  

Our Customer is a corporation that develops, manufactures, and markets robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery. Founded in 1995, their goal was to create innovative, robotic-assisted systems that help empower doctors and hospitals to make surgery less invasive than an open approach. Working with the top medical professionals, they continue to develop new, minimally invasive surgical platforms and future diagnostic tools to help solve complex healthcare challenges around the world.

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer on a contract basis to support our Customer's business needs. This role is on-site in Sunnyvale, CA.

Responsibilities

• Build highly scalable distributed systems that leverage event-based and streaming data pipelines to handle the ingestion and processing of robot, manufacturing, and clinical data
• Enable users by providing self-service APIs and applications to access and interact with data
• Work closely with core engineering teams to consistently evolve data models based on growing business needs
• Apply software development best practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and microservice architectures
• Effectively participate in the team’s planning, code reviews, KPI reviews, and design discussions leading to continuous improvement in these areas.
  
  

Skills And Qualifications

• Exceptional quantitative background (Computer Science, Math, Physics, and/or Engineering), or at least 5 years of industry experience in a quantitative role
• Fluent coding with Python and Java
• Proven experience building data pipelines and working with distributed systems using technologies such as Kafka/Flink, Snowflake, AWS Lambdas
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven understanding of best engineering practices, such as unit testing and integration testing, and deployment patterns.
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with SQL and relational databases
• Ability and enthusiasm to work collaboratively and cross-functionally, and take end-to-end ownership to deliver results for customers
  
  

Preferred

• Experience on a Platform team
• Experience with Gitlab CI/CD or other CI tooling
• Experience with Apache Iceberg
• Experience with Terraform and general IaC best practices
• You’re familiar with CNCF projects and have successfully used them in the past
  
  

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.