USA - Remote
Remote
Senior
Full Time
💰$ 140,000 - $ 210,000
remotepythonbackendaiseniorapikubernetesdockerflaskfastapi
Requirements
- •Seasoned Python engineer
- •Experience shipping meaningful LLM-backed or agentic AI work to real users
- •Use coding agents in daily workflow with a point of view on their effectiveness
- •Fluent in observability and production practices including telemetry, metrics, tracing, alerting
- •Opinionated about API design with experience shipping internet-facing APIs
- •Experience debugging incidents with real customer impact
- •Builder mindset prioritizing adoption over elegance
- •Energized by working with internal customers directly
What You'll Do
- •Expand DevDawg and Spice cloud development environments and automated review tooling
- •Build paved roads for API layer including REST blueprints, GraphQL schema, OpenAPI, auth and permission plumbing
- •Modernize backend framework layer including web and async compute frameworks and migration paths
- •Own production observability, metrics, alerting, and readiness bar
- •Ship shared backend services and primitives like eventing patterns, database-change safety, delegated access, internal admin framework
- •Set guardrails for coding agents including static analysis, linting, hooks, test harnesses
- •Partner across the organization with infrastructure teams
Nice to Have
- •Experience with Go, Rust, or TypeScript
- •Experience with Flask, FastAPI, GraphQL, TaskTiger, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
Benefits
- •Competitive pay plus organization-wide goal-based bonus
- •~5 weeks PTO to start plus 1-week Winter Holiday Break and paid US holidays
- •Earn 2 extra PTO days per year with Close
- •80% work option (4-day week at 80% pay)
- •Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- •1-month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- •Healthcare plans covering 99% of premium plus Dental, Vision, HSA, FSA, Long-Term Disability
- •401k with up to 6% match vested immediately
