Glass Layer Tech Lead

API and Integration: API-first design; Apigee; authentication and authorization; user-context propagation; versioned contracts; rate limiting; integration with UI, AI gateways, agents, BigQuery, and Stardog. With a highly engaged leadership team and a reputation for delivering hard-to-fill, niche talent, we help organizations build agile, high-performing teams that drive innovation and business success.

Trident Consulting is seeking a " Glass Layer Tech Lead ” for one of our clients in " Remote "

Job Title: Glass Layer Tech Lead
Location: Remote
Length of Assignment: 1 year w/ extension
Type: Contract (W2)
Rate:$80 to $90/hr

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• Own backend design and service boundaries; remain hands-on; conduct design and code reviews; mentor engineers; manage dependencies and production readiness
• Primary Focus: EBC backend/runtime, APIs, session and identity context, integrations, reliable delivery of data and AI responses
• Security and Governance: Secure coding; least privilege; identity propagation; secrets management; masking; audit logging; protection of sensitive data
• Observability and Operations: Logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, SLIs, incident response, root-cause analysis, recovery, and support runbooks
• Testing and Quality: Unit, integration, contract, regression, performance, load, and resilience testing; automated quality gates
• CI/CD and Release: Automated build, test, deployment, promotion, rollback, credential rotation, and environment management
• Cloud and Infrastructure: GCP, GKE, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, service accounts, secrets, workload identity, networking, DNS, load balancing, and private connectivity
• Knowledge Graph: Ability to integrate backend services with semantic and graph interfaces
• AI and Retrieval: Working knowledge of conversational AI, agent integration, structured response payloads, citations, and graceful handling of unavailable downstream services
• Data Engineering: Advanced SQL; BigQuery; curated and authorized views; query optimization; result transformation; pagination, filtering, masking, and role-aware delivery
• API and Integration: API-first design; Apigee; authentication and authorization; user-context propagation; versioned contracts; rate limiting; integration with UI, AI gateways, agents, BigQuery, and Stardog
• Backend Engineering: Advanced Python; REST and streaming APIs; asynchronous processing; session and workflow-state management; retries, timeouts, caching, schema validation, and structured error handling

About Trident
Trident Consulting is a premier IT staffing firm providing high-impact workforce solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market clients. Since 2005, we've specialized in sourcing elite technology and engineering talent for contract, direct hire, and managed services roles. Our expertise spans cloud, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and data analytics, supported by a 3M+ candidate database and a 78% fill ratio. With a highly engaged leadership team and a reputation for delivering hard-to-fill, niche talent, we help organizations build agile, high-performing teams that drive innovation and business success.

Some of our recent awards include:
Trailblazer Women Award 2025 by Consulate General of India in San Francisco Ranked as the #1 Women Owned Business Enterprise in the large category by ITServe. Received the TechServe Excellence award. Consistently ranked in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America Recognized in the SF Business Times as one of the Largest Bay Area BIPOC/Minority-Owned Businesses in 2022.

Sathees Kumar
Lead Recruiter
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