Overview VTG is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to design, develop, and enhance scalable event-driven and distributed software systems supporting complex data pipelines. This role will focus on building modular architectures that provide comprehensive event tracking, observability, fault tolerance, access control, and real-time alerting across multiple data domains. What will you do? • Design and develop scalable event-driven architectures supporting high-volume data pipelines and distributed systems. • Develop backend services and applications using Python, including asynchronous and concurrent programming techniques. • Design and implement distributed messaging and event-processing solutions using Kafka. • Build modular software architectures that can easily integrate new data formats, sources, and domains. • Develop frameworks that provide granular tracking and monitoring of events throughout data pipelines. • Design and implement fault-tolerant systems that maintain reliability and availability across distributed environments. • Implement access control and access management capabilities within event-driven architectures. • Develop solutions for real-time alerting, event tracking, and digital record keeping. • Implement observability capabilities using Grafana and the ELK Stack. • Build dashboards and monitoring solutions that provide visibility into application and system health. • Develop and maintain interfaces utilizing JSON for structured data interchange. • Troubleshoot distributed application and data-pipeline issues and identify opportunities to improve performance and reliability. • Apply modular software design principles to improve system maintainability, scalability, and extensibility. • Collaborate with engineering and data teams to expand architectures to support additional data domains and formats. Do you have what it takes? • Active TS/SCI W/ Polygraph required. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. • Strong software development experience with Python. • Experience with asynchronous programming and concurrency in Python. • Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or similar distributed messaging technologies. • Strong understanding of distributed systems. • Experience designing and developing event-driven architectures. • Experience working with JSON and structured data. • Understanding of fault-tolerant architecture and resilient system design. • Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions. • Hands-on experience with Grafana. • Experience with the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). • Experience developing scalable applications or data-processing pipelines.