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Software Development Engineer 3
3420 Central Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95051 US
Posted: 01/12/2026
2026-01-12
2026-03-10
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Number: 31354
Job Location: Onsite
Industry: MDEV - Medical Device
Job Description
Job Title: Software Development Engineer 3
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Software Development Engineer 3 opportunity with our client located in Santa Clara, CA.
Job Responsibilities:
Job Qualifications:
Job Details:
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 Software Development Engineer 3 opportunity with our client located in Santa Clara, CA.
Job Responsibilities:
- Build highly scalable distributed systems that leverage event-based and streaming data pipelines to handle ingestion and processing of robot, manufacturing, and clinical data
- Enable users by providing self-service APIs and applications to access and interact with data
- Work closely with core engineering teams to consistently evolve data models based on growing business needs
- Apply software development best practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and microservice architectures
- Effectively participate in the team’s planning, code reviews, KPI reviews, and design discussions leading to continuous improvement in these areas.
Job Qualifications:
- Exceptional quantitative background (Computer Science, Math, Physics, and/or Engineering), or at least 5+ years of industry experience in a quantitative role
- Fluent coding with Python and Java
- Proven experience building data pipelines and working with distributed systems using technologies such as Kafka/Flink, Snowflake, AWS Lambdas
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proven understanding of best engineering practices, such as unit testing and integration testing, and deployment patterns.
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with SQL and relational databases
- Ability and enthusiasm to work collaboratively and cross-functionally, and take end-to-end ownership to deliver results for customers.
- Experience on a Platform team
- Experience with Gitlab CI/CD or other CI tooling
- Experience with Apache Iceberg
- Experience with Terraform and general IaC best practices
- You’re familiar with CNCF projects and have successfully used them in the past.
Job Details:
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Range: $75-$83 an hour.
- Location: Santa Clara, 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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