Senior Staff Engineer

Iconma

Redwood City, CA
8 days ago

$100.80–$105.80 Per Hour

Highlights

High-Scale Engineering & Innovation Stream Processing Mastery: Architect massively parallel processing pipelines and stateful stream processing frameworks (utilizing tools like Apache Flink) to enable real-time anomaly detection. Architectural Strategy & Technical Vision Core Stack Evolution: Architect and optimize our primary ingestion and storage engines utilizing Java and PostgreSQL, ensuring high availability and performance at scale.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Redwood City, CA
Industry	Management Consulting Services
Salary	$100.80–$105.80 Per Hour
Company Size	2,000 to 2,499 employees
Year Founded	2000
Website	https://www.iconma.com/

Description

Our client, a Digital Infrastructure company, is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer for their Redwood City, CA location.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Staff Engineer for NPE Observability is the preeminent technical strategist for Client’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.
You will own the technical integrity of our streaming pipelines, ensuring telemetry from the global fleet is ingested, normalized, and processed with sub-second latency.
As a master of our tech stack (Java, Kafka, Postgres, Grafana), you will define the "Gold Standard" for technical excellence within the Network Platform Engineering (NPE) group.

Architectural Strategy & Technical Vision

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.
Unified Visibility: Define the global standard for observability visualization in Grafana, building complex, high-performance dashboards that aggregate data from diverse telemetry sources.

High-Scale Engineering & Innovation

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.
Technical Roadmap Ownership: Drive the engineering team toward key milestones, ensuring the code we ship aligns with the 3–5 year long-term NPE vision.

Reliability & Systemic Leadership

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.
Stakeholder Synthesis: Translate complex product requirements into deep technical specifications, managing relationships with both internal software teams and external network vendors.

Requirements:

Primary Skills: Java, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, SQL, Grafana.
Secondary Skills: Apache, Prometheus, Thanos, MDT (Model-Driven Telemetry).
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).
Visualization: Expert-level proficiency in Grafana for creating enterprise-level observability dashboards.
Large-Scale Systems: Proven experience with Prometheus, Thanos, or ClickHouse and working within a structured Agile/Scrum environment.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Why Should You Apply?

Health Benefits
Referral Program
Excellent growth and advancement opportunities

Benefits

401K, Employee Referral Program, Life Insurance

About Company

ICONMA is a global information consulting management firm providing Professional Staffing Services and Project-Based Solutions for organizations in a broad range of industries.

Corporate Headquarters in Troy, Michigan; 20+ locations worldwide.
Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE); certified by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC); and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
Founded in 2000
2000+ Employees

The company was founded on the principle that success is derived from delivering high quality service and resources in the most responsive, flexible, and innovative way. ICONMA invests in people and resources with a single goal: To provide our customers with the highest quality service in the most responsive manner. Through its network of offices, ICONMA provides the resources to help clients maintain their competitive advantage.