Sr Software Engineer, BE Python

Job Summary

This role delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and requires strong technical leadership, mentoring, and independent decision making.

• Design, implement, test, deliver, and operate end‑to‑end solutions based on senior role definitions.
• Advise immediate management on project‑level issues.
• Guide junior engineers and share best practices.
• Operate with minimal day‑to‑day supervision, applying internal conventions and industry best practices in technical decisions.
• Act as a key voice in team processes such as code and design reviews.
• Oversee projects to ensure accurate, complete, and operable solutions are delivered, collaborating with management as needed.
• Collaborate with product managers to understand and refine requirements.
• Serve as an expert to resolve technical inquiries from other employees.
• Adhere to established internal conventions and standard procedures.
• Share software development processes and standards with junior peers.
• Leverage industry peer solutions to inform and validate technical decisions.
• Anticipate consequences of implementation choices on future development and optimize accordingly.
• Contribute to code and design.
• Own performance and availability of services, participate in on‑call rotations, and support incident resolution.
• Maintain a continuous learning mindset and contribute to complex projects alongside colleagues.

• 3+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Python or an equivalent high‑level programming language.
• Advanced skills with relational and No
  
  SQL databases, caching solutions (e.g., Redis, Elasti Cache, Hazelcast), and messaging/queuing systems such as SQS, Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, or Pulsar.
• Experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365, designing and implementing infrastructure for global‑scale services.
• Hands‑on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS (or similar cloud provider), including infrastructure as code tools (AWS CLI, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible, GHA, Puppet).
• Programming and scripting with Lambda, API Gateway, Python, Java, and Bash.
• Hands‑on experience with database operations in AWS Dynamo
  
  DB, Document
  
  DB, Cassandra, MySQL, Aurora, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers; strong communication skills to explain technical issues.
• AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.
• Competency in comparing implementation choices, including non‑functional characteristics.
• Understanding of runtime environment concepts (Linux OS, JVM, Python runtime) and ability to predict performance characteristics.
• Experience with distributed services and backend systems; building services on public cloud (preferably AWS, alternatives GCP or Azure).
• Experience managing infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Experience working with fault‑tolerant, scalable distributed services and systems.

• San Jose, California: ($143,500 – $210,160) annually.
• Austin, Texas: ($130,500 – $191,161) annually.

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