Staff Engineer (Python)

For our international client - AI product company - we are looking for an experienced Staff Python Engineer.

• 10+ years of experience in Python development as a Staff/Principal Engineer.
• Strong Python Asyncio experience.
• Strong software design skills.
• Significant experience with at least one strongly typed language (Rust, C++, Go, Swift, Java, etc).
• Deep understanding of Networking Protocols, Operating Systems.
• Deep knowledge of Python Profiling.
• Experience in delivering and troubleshooting a production-grade cloud-based distributed system and a real-time low-level system (e.g. kernel, drivers, RTOS).
• Experience with Kubernetes, Helm and different observability stacks.
• Strong LLM prompting skills, but also being able to work without them.
• Experience with gRPC and its troubleshooting.
• Being a contributor or maintainer of an open-source package.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• BSc in Software Development or equivalent industry experience.

Nice to have:

• An understanding of one of the following: WebRTC, STUN/TURN, SIP, RTP, HLS, RTMP.
• Having worked with Rust and PyO3.
• Audio programming experience.

• Own parts of our core backend infrastructure, which is a complex, real-time distributed system written in Python and Rust.
• Own big initiatives end-to-end and deliver them with minimal guidance.
• Troubleshoot highly complex production issues.
• Constantly improve our development velocity while maintaining a very high reliability standard.