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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** RAPTA INC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $175,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Configuration Management, Code Generation, Continuous Integration, Linux, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Protocol Buffers, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Software Architecture, Ansible, Service Discovery, Systems Architecture, Management of Software Versions, Data Logging, Real Time Systems, Istio, Prompt Engineering, Backend, Containerization, Build Tools, Terraform, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines, Dynatrace, Api Management, Docker
- **Published:** May 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=893f43f32bfb7658

## About the Role

Do you have experience in gRPC?, * 10+ years of professional experience developing distributed backend systems on Linux

 * Deep curiosity for all software and systems architecture topics

 * Expert-level Python programming and software architecture skills

 * Strong system design skills with a focus on service boundaries, API contracts, and fault tolerance

 * Fluency operating in Linux environments - comfortable living in the shell, reading logs, and reasoning about process, network, and filesystem behavior

 * Excellence in technical communication and documentation

Required Technical Skills

 * Expertise in prompt engineering and AI-assisted development as a daily practice - Claude Code, Augment, Copilot, or equivalent is a force multiplier in your workflow, not a novelty

 * Expertise in designing and operating microservice architectures at scale

 * Deep experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers - schema evolution, streaming RPCs, interceptors, and contract-first development

 * Proficiency with version control and CI/CD practices

 * Experience with containerized deployments (Docker on Linux hosts), service discovery, and distributed computing

 * Strong grasp of observability: distributed tracing, structured logging, and metrics

Highly Competitive Candidates Will Also Bring

 * Previous experience in manufacturing, industrial automation, or quality control systems

 * Experience with monorepo build systems (Bazel, Buck, Pants) and polyglot protobuf code generation

 * Familiarity with backwards/forwards compatibility patterns and API versioning at scale

 * Experience with real-time processing and edge computing constraints on resource-constrained Linux devices

 * Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code (Ansible, Terraform) for Linux fleet operations

## Description

We're seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team in developing distributed, cutting-edge applied AI systems. This is a full-time position working directly with our engineering team to drive technical innovation and mentor mid-level and junior engineers.

What You'll Do

 * Contribute to the architecture and development of production-grade distributed microservice systems running on Linux

 * Drive technical initiatives to advance our service mesh, contract-first APIs, and inter-service communication patterns

 * Build scalable data processing pipelines and high-throughput service infrastructure

 * Design and evolve protobuf contracts and gRPC service definitions across the platform

 * Provide technical guidance to junior team members


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