Senior Staff Engineer - Remote
San Ramon, Contra Costa County, California, 94583, USA
Listed on 2026-06-02
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Software Development
Cloud Engineer - Software, Software Engineer
Aptask Global Workforce (AGW) is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for a Remote position with a Leading Technology Solutions Provider. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity. This position is 100% remote.
As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure Compute team, you will serve as the technical leader for the lifecycle management of a Kubernetes compute platform. This role is foundational to all features delivered in security, networking, developer experience, and efficiency. You will be responsible for ensuring the platform's reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience to enable infrastructure and product teams to deliver enhancements across multiple cloud vendors.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers
- Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of the cloud platform
- Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve the Cloud Platform
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the compute platform
Requirements:
- BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
- 4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2)
- Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
- Advanced Kubernetes expertise, including hands-on experience writing Kubernetes controllers and experience building and working with admission Webhooks
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and developer experience
Desired skills:
- Proficiency in Go (Golang)
- Istio/Envoy experience
Pay range: up to $71.42 per hour
Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Aptask Global Workforce (AGW) employees will be considered for this position.
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, apply today!
Aptask Global Workforce (AGW)
ApTask Global Workforce (AGW) is a certified Minority and Veteran workforce solutions company. AGW delivers operational, clinical, lab and professional talent with a strong focus on healthcare and life sciences. The company supports clients with reliable staffing, program expertise and a commitment to quality, speed and consistent delivery.
Benefits of working with ApTask Global Workforce include:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
Our team stays close to the process and is here to guide you every step of the way. To learn more, please visit our website
ApTask Global Workforce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.
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