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Senior Staff Engineer, Memory/Network Systems Software
Posted: 06/08/2026
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Number: 31891
Job Location: Onsite
Industry: SEMI - Semiconductor
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer, Memory/Network Systems Software
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Senior Staff Engineer, Memory/Network Systems Software with our client located in San Jose, CA.
Job Description:
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Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Senior Staff Engineer, Memory/Network Systems Software with our client located in San Jose, CA.
Job Description:
- Work across the full stack: from host memory and device behavior in Linux, to node agents and container runtime interactions, to Kubernetes resource orchestration, controllers, and cluster-level lifecycle management.
- This is a hands-on systems role for an engineer who is comfortable working across boundaries that are often split between kernel and cloud platform teams.
Job Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement end-to-end systems software for advanced platform and memory technologies across Linux and Kubernetes environments.
- Design solutions that span:
- Linux kernel and host OS integration
- user-space system services and node agents
- container runtime / kubelet interaction points
- Kubernetes APIs, controllers, CRDs, and orchestration workflows
- Develop software for resource discovery, reservation, activation, resize, release, rollback, and reconciliation in clustered environments.
- Build and maintain Kubernetes operators, controllers, and automation services using Go, client-go, controller-runtime, and related frameworks.
- Collaborate with Linux, firmware, and hardware teams to translate low-level platform capabilities into safe, observable, Kubernetes-manageable workflows.
- Work on Linux-side integration for areas such as memory lifecycle, hotplug behavior, NUMA awareness, cgroups, device/resource management, and system telemetry.
- Define interfaces between host software and cluster control-plane components, including state models, failure handling, and recovery behavior.
- Develop node-local software and control-plane services that coordinate host state, platform services, and Kubernetes objects.
- Drive architecture for reconciliation, idempotency, concurrency control, and fault recovery across distributed components.
- Create observability for controller behavior, node readiness, resource lifecycle progress, and failure analysis.
- Partner with internal teams across kernel, systems architecture, firmware, validation, and platform software to bring proof-of-concept software into robust internal infrastructure.
- Support bring-up, debugging, validation, and performance tuning in lab and pre-production environments.
Job Details:
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Range: $65 - $75 an hour.
- Location: San Jose, CA (Onsite).
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
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