Randstad Digital Americas · 3 hours ago
Software Developer
San Francisco, CA
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$59.68/hr - $64.68/hr
8+ years expRandstad Digital Americas is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical platforms. This role focuses on Java-based API development, cloud-native deployments, and AI-assisted software development.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java services supporting REST-based APIs
Build cloud-native, horizontally scalable services deployed on GCP and/or other public cloud platforms
Develop and secure APIs using OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SAML-based authentication and authorization flows
Implement API-first designs with robust contract discipline, backward compatibility, and understandability
Build and operate highly resilient systems with: API latency SLA < 50ms, Throughput > 5,000 TPS, Availability ≥ 99.9%, Error budget < 0.1%
Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and fast recovery
Apply resilience patterns such as timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiting
Participate in production support, incident response, RCA, and continuous reliability improvement
Use CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment
Own build → deploy → run lifecycle, including monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning
Work with containerized workloads and modern deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags)
Actively use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot in agentic mode) to: Accelerate feature development, Improve code quality and test coverage, Assist with refactoring, documentation, and troubleshooting, Champion responsible and effective AI usage as part of daily engineering workflows
Partner with platform, security, SRE, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
Contribute to architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making
Qualification
Required
8+ years robust Java expertise with experience building production-grade services
8+ years Hands-on API development experience, including RESTful services and API security
Cloud deployment experience on GCP and/or equivalent cloud platforms
2+ Solid experience with Access Management protocols: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML
Proven experience building and operating high-criticality systems with strict SLAs
robust understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and performance optimization and resiliency
Experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production troubleshooting
Benefits
Medical
Prescription
Dental
Vision
AD&D
Life insurance offerings
Short-term disability
401K plan
Company
Randstad Digital Americas
Randstad Digital is a trusted digital enablement partner that facilitates accelerated transformation for businesses by providing global talent, capacity, and solutions across specialized domains.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Graig Paglieri
CEO, Randstad Digital Americas
Pascal de Hesselle
SVP, Executive Client Partner - Technology, Media & Telecom
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