The ideal candidate is a proven distributed systems expert who remains actively involved in software development while influencing long-term technical direction.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop distributed platform services supporting cloud, edge, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Build scalable control plane services, microservices, and APIs using Go, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and Kubernetes-based architectures.
- Design observability and telemetry platforms utilizing OpenTelemetry, Kafka, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar technologies.
- Develop platform automation, orchestration, and AI-assisted operational workflows to improve provisioning, deployment, lifecycle management, and infrastructure health.
- Evaluate new technologies through hands-on prototyping, drive architectural decisions, perform code reviews, and collaborate across Product, Customer Engineering, and Software Engineering teams.
- 18+ years designing and building large-scale distributed systems for enterprise, cloud, or infrastructure platforms.
- Expert-level Go development (or comparable systems programming language such as Rust or C++) with deep knowledge of distributed systems architecture.
- Strong experience building microservices, gRPC services, REST APIs, Kubernetes-based platforms, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, telemetry pipelines, stream processing (Kafka), and large-scale observability platforms.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, ArangoDB, graph databases, time-series databases, and distributed data architectures.
- Experience designing secure multi-tenant platforms including RBAC, authentication, authorization, and enterprise identity integration.
- Demonstrated ability to prototype complex technical solutions, evaluate architectural tradeoffs, and deliver production-quality software.
- Excellent communication skills with experience presenting technical designs to engineering leadership, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience with AI infrastructure, autonomous operations, LLM agents, LangGraph, AutoGen, MCP, or AI-driven workflow automation.
- Background in network automation, infrastructure management, OpenConfig, gNMI, data center networking, or large-scale infrastructure orchestration.
- Experience with zero-touch provisioning, device lifecycle management, edge computing, or control plane/data plane architectures.
- Active open-source contributions or recognized technical leadership within distributed systems or cloud infrastructure communities.
Estimated Min Rate: $313000.00
Estimated Max Rate: $353000.00
What’s In It for You?
We welcome you to be a part of the largest and legendary global staffing companies to meet your career aspirations. Yoh’s network of client companies has been employing professionals like you for over 65 years in the U.S., UK and Canada. Join Yoh’s extensive talent community that will provide you with access to Yoh’s vast network of opportunities and gain access to this exclusive opportunity available to you. Benefit eligibility is in accordance with applicable laws and client requirements. Benefits include:
- Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- MetLife Voluntary Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401K Retirement Savings Plan
- Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
- Referral Bonus Programs
- Certification and training opportunities
Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
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