Technical Lead

We are hiring a Technical Lead to architect and scale a cloud-native, telecom-grade data engineering platform designed to process massive observability workloads across distributed network domains.

This platform is built on a disaggregated microservices architecture, is Kafka-centric, Kubernetes-native, cloud-agnostic, and evolving toward near-real-time streaming capabilities.

You will lead architectural decisions across Go and Node.js/TypeScript stacks, define high-throughput streaming strategies, and ensure production-grade reliability, scalability, and security.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in distributed systems, high-scale data processing, and modern cloud-native environments.

What You Will Do

Architecture & System Design

• Architect high-throughput Kafka-based streaming pipelines

• Design and implement distributed microservices in Go and Node.js/TypeScript

• Define partitioning strategies, concurrency models, and windowed aggregation patterns

• Design for near-real-time streaming evolution

• Lead scaling, reliability, and performance strategy across services

• Ensure cloud-agnostic, Kubernetes-native deployment architecture

Streaming & Data Engineering

• Implement resilient streaming patterns including retries, DLQs, idempotency, and backpressure handling

• Design schema evolution strategies using Avro or Protobuf with Schema Registry

• Build systems capable of processing 10M+ messages per day

• Guide dynamic configuration using CRDs and Kubernetes operator patterns

• Define observability standards using OpenTelemetry, metrics, and tracing

Security & Production Readiness

• Ensure secure container practices including SBOM, CVE hygiene, and image hardening

• Define CI/CD strategies for secure and reliable deployment

• Design multi-tenant cloud-ready environments

• Establish metrics-driven scaling and monitoring standards

Leadership

• Conduct architectural reviews and mentor engineers

• Guide teams across time zones in a distributed environment

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product and domain stakeholders

• Bring telecom domain awareness into system design decisions

Must-Have Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience

• 5+ years building distributed systems at scale

• 2+ years of strong Go experience (preferred but highly valued)

• Strong experience with Kafka including consumer groups, partitions, retries, DLQ, and performance tuning

• Experience building high-throughput microservices handling 10M+ messages per day

• Strong understanding of concurrency models (goroutines, channels)

• Experience with Kubernetes including pods, scaling, Helm, CRDs, and operators

• Experience with Node.js / TypeScript backend services

• Experience with time-series databases such as InfluxDB or Prometheus

• Strong understanding of cloud-native design principles

• Experience implementing observability frameworks (OpenTelemetry, metrics-driven scaling)

Strongly Preferred

• Telecom domain exposure including 3GPP, O-RAN, PM/KPI, OSS/BSS

• Experience building near-real-time streaming systems

• Experience designing for multi-tenant cloud environments

• Experience with schema evolution (Avro/Protobuf + Schema Registry)

• Experience implementing secure CI/CD container pipelines

• Familiarity with telecom network data semantics

Nice to Have

• Experience building Kubernetes operators in Go

• Experience with stateful stream processing patterns

• Experience in telecom compliance or data governance environments

Who You Are

• Strong communicator with excellent articulation skills

• Comfortable leading architecture while remaining hands-on

• Confident working independently and in cross-functional teams

• Able to collaborate across cultures and time zones

• Delivery-oriented and comfortable operating under deadlines

• High ownership and accountability mindset

Why Join

• Work on a high-scale, telecom-grade distributed data platform

• Influence architecture at a foundational stage

• Remote-first team across Latin America

• Exposure to modern streaming, cloud-native, and distributed systems challenges

Company Overview

Our client is a global technology company with 19+ years of experience and 550+ employees worldwide. They specialize in cloud-native digital transformation solutions across industries and operate across the USA, UK, Japan, India, and Australia. They are known for strong engineering standards, agility, and customer success.

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