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Lead Software Engineer (Python)
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Number: 25678
Remote Options: Hybrid
Job Description
Lead Software Engineer (Python)
Pay Range:Â $80/hour to $93/hour
This is a senior software engineering role on a team that builds intelligent tooling for Data Engineers. The team is not responsible for building traditional data pipelines or data models. Instead, they build software that helps engineers understand and navigate a massive enterprise data environment.
For example, the company has hundreds of thousands of Snowflake tables. The team ingests and manages metadata about those tables, including:
The team is also building intelligent and agentic systems that can use this knowledge to answer questions and help engineers interact with the data environment.
What We're Looking For
The successful candidate will have a passion for technology and solid coding skills. Knowledge of specific technologies is helpful but less important than the ability to learn quickly. We value team members who aren't afraid to dive deep when required, think for themselves, and have strong communication and teamwork skills.
We're looking for a strong Python Software Engineer with excellent problem-solving and system-design skills.
Experience with the following is highly relevant:
Basic Qualifications
Pay Range:Â $80/hour to $93/hour
This is a senior software engineering role on a team that builds intelligent tooling for Data Engineers. The team is not responsible for building traditional data pipelines or data models. Instead, they build software that helps engineers understand and navigate a massive enterprise data environment.
For example, the company has hundreds of thousands of Snowflake tables. The team ingests and manages metadata about those tables, including:
- Ownership
- Relationships
- Lineage
- Columns
- Upstream and downstream dependencies
- Organizational context
The team is also building intelligent and agentic systems that can use this knowledge to answer questions and help engineers interact with the data environment.
What We're Looking For
The successful candidate will have a passion for technology and solid coding skills. Knowledge of specific technologies is helpful but less important than the ability to learn quickly. We value team members who aren't afraid to dive deep when required, think for themselves, and have strong communication and teamwork skills.
We're looking for a strong Python Software Engineer with excellent problem-solving and system-design skills.
Experience with the following is highly relevant:
- Search technologies such as OpenSearch or Elasticsearch
- Knowledge graphs
- Metadata platforms
- AI and agentic systems
Basic Qualifications
- 12+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems at scale.
- Strong programming fundamentals in at least one primary language (e.g., Python, TypeScript, Java) and a working understanding of distributed systems trade-offs around consistency, latency, and cost at scale.
- Production experience with AWS (or a comparable cloud), including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automated deployment workflows for services running at scale.
- Track record of leading cross-team technical efforts and mentoring senior engineers.
- Experience building internet-scale platforms (high-throughput ingestion, multi-region, low-latency serving).
- Hands-on experience with several of: Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake - including tuning and operating these in production.
- Familiarity with search/graph systems (OpenSearch, Neptune) and API frameworks (GraphQL).
- Experience with data catalog platforms (Acryl DataHub, Alation), data governance and PII handling.
- Background in knowledge graph systems and graph algorithms.
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