Senior Staff Engineer, NPE Observability

About

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.

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).
• 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.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.