Backend Python Software Engineer

We're seeking a software engineer who loves solving tough problems. You'll join a seasoned team focused on building systems that extract content from across the internet - text, audio, video, and more. In short: we want you to help us "capture the internet" ... or at least a good chunk of it.

In this role you will:

• Active Secret clearance or higher
• Experience with source control (e.g. Git) and CI/CD pipeline tools such as AWS CodeBuild (preferred), Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with API standards such as REST and HTTP, message-driven architectures, persistent storage layers, and distributed systems
• Experience developing backend services using Python and a modern web framework such as FastAPI (preferred), Flask, or Django
• Experience with testing frameworks such as PyTest (preferred) or unittest
• Experience with Python project management, dependency management tools, and build tools such as poetry (preferred), make, uv, pip, or conda
• Effective written and verbal communication skills necessary to perform job duties and collaborate with team members

You may excel in this role if you have the following skills:

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability stacks such as Prometheus/Grafana (preferred), CloudWatch, or ELK/EFK
• Experience designing and implementing scalable, maintainable, and OOP based software in a containerized cloud environment (AWS preferred) leveraging foundational services for computing, identity management, and networking.
• Contributions to open-source libraries or community projects or personal projects
• Experience with search technologies such as OpenSearch (preferred), Elasticsearch, or Solr
• Experience working with streaming or event-driven architectures such as SNS/SQS (preferred), Kafka, Kinesis, or Event Bridge
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and how to leverage DevSecOps pipelines to deliver code
• Experience working with NLP libraries (e.g., spaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face Transformers) and integrating with commercial or custom generative AI services such as OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services, or proprietary models.