Backend Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
12 months+ contract
The backend engineer will build and maintain the platform services that AI agents and the frontend application depend on. Work will span:
- API design and implementation — RESTful and event-driven service APIs for asset management, configuration, telemetry access, and workflow orchestration
- Service integrations — Connecting platform capabilities to shared services including identity and access management, weather data, utility tariff data, notification delivery, and audit logging
- Real-time telemetry pipeline — Processing industrial telemetry from MQTT/Sparkplug B message streams via Azure Event Hub, including message decoding, metric normalization, knowledge-graph-based enrichment, and downstream publishing
- Command and control path — Implementing the outbound command path to industrial equipment with acknowledgement verification
- Data persistence and query — Working with time-series databases, graph databases, and object storage to support operational and analytical workloads
- Infrastructure and deployment — Containerized services running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
Required skills:
- Strong Python and/or Java development (3+ years production experience)
- Experience designing and building microservices on Azure (AKS, Event Hub, Event Grid, Azure Data Explorer, Cosmos DB, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message brokers (Kafka, Event Hub, MQTT)
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps Pipelines)
- Comfort with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, or Pulumi)
Preferred skills:
- Experience with industrial protocols (Sparkplug B, OPC-UA, Modbus, BACnet, SNMP)
- Background in energy management, SCADA, or building management systems
- Familiarity with graph databases or RDF triple stores
- Experience with time-series data at scale (Azure Data Explorer / Kusto, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB)
Pay: $45.00 - $50.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
