Inabia Solutions and Consulting, Inc.
SDE — Streaming Infrastructure & Operations
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Own and operate backend streaming services using Apache Flink and Apache Kudu on AWS. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, manage workloads on Kubernetes (EKS), design runbooks, alerting, failure recovery, and capacity planning. Perform monitoring, incident response, performance tuning, and reliability improvements while collaborating to harden open-source infrastructure. 12-month onsite contract in Redmond, WA; US work authorization required; heavy operational/on-call responsibilities.
Overview
Inabia is seeking a backend-focused Software Development Engineer (SDE) to own streaming infrastructure and operational readiness on a 12-month onsite engagement in Redmond, WA. This role is heavily backend and operations-weighted, centered on Apache Kudu and Apache Flink running on AWS in production real-time data systems. It is an ideal fit for an engineer who values deep end-to-end system ownership, operational rigor, and the satisfaction of keeping mission-critical pipelines reliable at scale.
Responsibilities
- Own and operate backend streaming services built on Apache Flink for real-time data processing
- Develop deep working knowledge of Apache Kudu as the fast, mutable columnar storage layer and serve as the primary subject matter expert for its operational behavior
- Work within the Kudu + Flink architecture, with Kudu handling low-latency storage and Flink handling stream processing on top of it
- Build and maintain ETL pipelines feeding the streaming layer
- Design and implement operational readiness processes — runbooks, alerting strategies, failure recovery procedures, and capacity planning — for the full streaming stack
- Manage and troubleshoot workloads on Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) within an AWS-managed infrastructure environment
- Perform hands-on operational work including monitoring, incident response, performance tuning, and system reliability improvements
- Collaborate with the broader engineering team to harden open-source infrastructure components for production use
Key Qualifications
- U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder; no sponsorship available (no C2C, H-1B transfer, OPT/CPT, TN, or any third-party visa)
- 4+ years of professional backend software development experience
- Hands-on experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, or Spark Streaming
- Experience with distributed storage systems (Apache Kudu preferred; Cassandra, HBase, or comparable systems also relevant)
- Production experience with Kubernetes (Amazon EKS preferred) and AWS-managed infrastructure
- Comfortable carrying heavy operational and on-call responsibilities, not solely feature development
- Ability to work onsite in Redmond, WA five days per week for the full 12-month contract duration
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience running Apache Kudu and Apache Flink together in a production real-time analytics or similar architecture
- Experience building operational readiness frameworks from scratch, including runbooks, SLOs, and alerting strategy
- Background contributing to or deeply operating open-source infrastructure projects in a production context
- Strong troubleshooting instincts and composure under production pressure
Inabia Solutions and Consulting, Inc. Redmond, Washington, USA Office
Redmond, WA, United States
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