Software Engineer

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer – Data Products & Cloud Solutions

Job ID

26-05463

Location

Moline, IL - Remote

Duration

12 Months on W2 contract

Remote / Onsite They would like someone who is able to come onsite if needed.

Job Description

• We are looking for a highly technical Senior Software Engineer to join the Compass team and help design, build, deploy, and support production data products and services for precision agriculture.
• The Compass team develops software and infrastructure that turns machine, agronomic, geospatial, logistics, and other data into production capabilities. Our work spans backend APIs, event-driven data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, databases, Databricks integrations, monitoring, and operational tooling.
• We are looking for someone who is comfortable working across technologies, can independently solve ambiguous technical problems, and can take a capability from initial design through production deployment and support. This role will work closely with software engineers, data scientists, product teams, and partner engineering teams.

Essential Attributes / Experience

• Excellent Python development skills with production software deployment experience
• Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs, backend services, and data-processing applications
• Strong understanding of AWS, including services such as Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, S3, SQS, EventBridge, and RDS/Aurora
• Experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL
• Experience building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and Git/GitHub development practices
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, data, infrastructure, and integration layers
• Ability to independently investigate complex problems, propose solutions, and deliver production-quality implementations
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across engineering, data science, product, and business teams
• Experience improving systems for scalability, reliability, security, performance, and cloud cost efficiency

Preferred Attributes

• Experience with Databricks, Spark, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, or similar data platforms
• Experience with event-driven and serverless architectures
• Experience with Docker and containerized applications
• Experience with DBMate, Pydantic, AWS Lambda Powertools, or similar Python frameworks
• Experience with authentication and authorization patterns such as AWS IAM and OAuth/OIDC
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog
• Experience processing machine, agricultural, logistics, or other high-volume data
• Experience with GitHub Actions and automated cloud deployments

Example Responsibilities (Including but not limited to)

• Architect and implement new AWS and Databricks-based solutions while improving existing Compass services for scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• Design, build, and maintain Python REST APIs, Lambda functions, backend processes, and event-driven services
• Build pipelines that ingest, transform, process, and persist machine, agronomic, geospatial, logistics, and other data
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Design and support PostgreSQL/Aurora databases, including schemas, migrations, application connectivity, and performance
• Build solutions supporting both real-time/event-driven workloads and scheduled batch processing
• Develop and support Databricks integrations and data-processing workflows as needed by Compass products
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including automated testing and application/infrastructure deployment
• Implement and improve logging, metrics, dashboards, monitoring, and alerts using Datadog
• Troubleshoot production issues across APIs, databases, queues, cloud infrastructure, data-processing jobs, and external integrations
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and cloud cost

Compensation

The hourly rate for this position is between $60.00-$63.00 per hour.

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].

Benefits

Sunrise offers ACA compliant medical coverage/dental insurance/vision insurance to all employees. We also offer Sick time benefits as required per State regulations.

Contact

Vinay Kumar

Vinay.c@sunrisesys.

com Direct

(732) 837-0448 | URL

Sunrise Systems Inc.