Responsibilities
- Define and document the architecture, standards, and technical roadmap across the Self-Service Cloud Portal, Cloud Console, and other current and future services.
- Contribute a large, sustained volume of production Python code for core backend components, focusing on clarity, reliability, and maintainability.
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and backend services, including authentication and authorization flows (OAuth2 / OpenID Connect) and multi-tenant patterns.
- Integrate backend Python services with Go microservices and React/TypeScript frontends, ensuring consistent contracts, error handling, and performance across layers.
- Shape data and persistence layers, including relational schemas, ORM models (e.g., SQLAlchemy), and patterns for usage metering, billing, account management, and provisioning.
- Synthesize product requirements into epics, tickets, and delivery plans, and help establish SDLC and CI/CD practices that keep releases predictable and safe.
- Collaborate with the DevSecOps Engineer on SSDLC and secure design decisions, ensuring security is integrated into architecture and planning while DevSecOps owns and operates the SSDLC pipeline.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code reviews, and communicate architectural trade-offs and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Work closely with cloud and platform teams to align application architecture with OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes capabilities and constraints.
- Continuously refine patterns, libraries, and conventions to reduce complexity, improve reliability, and make the codebase easier for the team to work with over time.
Requirements
- Expert-level Python for API and backend development, including experience with frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask, and libraries like SQLAlchemy and Jinja2.
- Strong experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, including authentication and authorization with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
- Experience architecting distributed systems or service-oriented architectures at production scale, with attention to reliability, observability, and evolvability.
- Solid relational database skills (PostgreSQL, MySQL) including schema design, query optimization basics, and ORM modeling.
- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and Git-based CI/CD workflows for building, testing, and deploying services.
- Strong communication and mentoring skills, with the ability to lead architecture discussions and explain trade-offs clearly.
Nice to Have
- Hands-on Go (Golang) experience to contribute to and review backend services.
- Experience with React and TypeScript for collaborating effectively on frontend architecture and implementation.
- Familiarity with OpenStack APIs and ecosystem, and with Ceph or other distributed storage systems.
- Background in multi-tenant SaaS, including tenant isolation, usage metering, and self-service provisioning models.
- Experience with Odoo ERP/CRM or open-source cloud console/dashboard projects.
- Test-driven development with Pytest, and experience building public cloud or IaaS products.
Benefits
- benefits
- equity
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)