Software Engineer (Short Term Contract)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Contract
• Salary: Not specified

Zencore is a fast-growing company founded by former Google Cloud leaders, architects, and engineers. We are seeking candidates with significant experience in Google Cloud to join our team. Our engagements aim to eliminate obstacles, reduce risk, and accelerate timelines for customers transitioning to Google and seeking assistance with data and application modernization. We embed within customer teams to provide strategic guidance, facilitate technology decisions, and execute projects in a collaborative, co-development style. As a member of our Cloud Engineering team, you will be working with fast-paced innovative companies, leveraging Cloud as the key driver of their transformation. Our clients will look to you as their trusted advisor, someone they can rely on and who will be there to help them along their Google Cloud journey. You will be expected to work a large spectrum of technology and tools, including public cloud platforms, AI and LLMs, Kubernetes, data processing systems, databases, and more.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of experience working in a Software Engineering capacity.
• Programming Languages: Excellent knowledge and experience with Python, and preferably additional languages such as Go.
• Problem Solving: Strong critical thinking skills, and a bias towards problem solving.
• Architecture: Familiarity with implementing microservice architectures.
• Kubernetes: Fundamental skills with Kubernetes. You should be familiar with packaging and deploying your applications to k8s.
• Data Systems: Experience building applications that work with data, databases, and other parts of the data ecosystem is preferred.
• Generative AI: Familiarity with Generative AI workflows, frameworks like Langchain, and experience with Streamlit are all highly desirable.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience deploying production workloads on the public cloud - either GCP or AWS.
• CI/CD: Experience using CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, etc.
• Adaptability: Able to work with new tools and technologies where you may not have prior experience.
• Communication: Comfortable with being on video in meetings internally and with clients. Strong English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Client Engagement: Working with our clients to understand their requirements and technical challenges.
• Solution Design: Using client input, develop a technical design for a solution and communicate the value of your solution to the client team.
• Project Planning: Work to develop delivery estimates and an estimated project plan.
• Technical Leadership: Act as the lead technical member of the implementation project team.
• Key Decisions & Delivery: Be responsible for making key technical decisions and keeping delivery on track.
• Unblocking: Be able to unblock when things are stuck.
• Technology Utilization: Utilize a broad range of technologies such as Kubernetes, AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs), to develop scalable and efficient cloud applications.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of industry trends and new technologies to drive continuous improvement in cloud solutions and practices.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end cloud solutions, from conceptualization to deployment and maintenance.
• Troubleshooting: Engage in problem-solving and troubleshooting to address complex technical challenges in a cloud environment.

Application Instructions

• No specific application instructions are provided in the job description. Interested candidates should contact Zencore directly to express their interest.

Company Information

• Company: Zencore
• Founders: Former Google Cloud leaders, architects, and engineers.
• Mission: Eliminate obstacles, reduce risk, and accelerate timelines for customers transitioning to Google and seeking assistance with data and application modernization.
• Culture: Professionals you can Trust. Our people have extensive experience to get the job done. We share unbiased opinions and are comfortable with the hard truths. You are the subject matter experts for our customers. We are the Missing Link.