Software Developer ( Local to WA )

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

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