Senior Software Engineer (Python, Kubernetes, Cloud Platform)

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Senior Software Engineer (Python, Kubernetes, Cloud Platform)

• Contract; 8am–5pm
• Westlake, Texas
• $69–70/hour
• Bachelor’s degree required

Description

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-quality Python applications, APIs, libraries, and reusable components. Implement automation, reliable observability, secure practices, and CI/CD workflows, and deploy containerized services to Kubernetes on AWS/Azure using Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Build maintainable, extensible, scalable Python software using object-oriented programming, modular architecture, design patterns, and clean-code principles.
• Apply advanced Python skills (classes, modules, functions, data structures, type hints, packaging, dependency management, exception handling, async/parallel processing concepts).
• Implement standardized logging, configuration management, command-line interfaces, input validation, error handling, and failure recovery patterns.
• Create reusable frameworks, utilities, templates, and self-service capabilities to reduce duplication and improve developer productivity.
• Write comprehensive unit, integration, and regression tests using mocking, fixtures, automation, and code-coverage practices.
• Diagnose software defects, runtime failures, and performance bottlenecks; conduct root-cause analysis and implement sustainable remediation.
• Design, configure, deploy, and support containerized applications on Kubernetes in AWS, Azure, or comparable public-cloud environments.
• Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager templates) to automate infrastructure.
• Build and maintain CI/CD workflows using GitHub, Jenkins, and Artifactory for source control, testing, packaging, artifact management, and release automation.
• Implement structured logging, metrics, dashboards, monitors, and alerts for highly available and operationally reliable applications and platforms.
• Apply secure software-development practices including peer reviews, dependency management, vulnerability remediation, secrets protection, and secure cloud configuration.
• Use relational database concepts and SQL for persistence, integrations, or data-processing solutions.
• Participate in technical design reviews, architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineering standards adoption.
• Produce technical designs, documentation, operational procedures, troubleshooting guides, and root-cause analysis records.
• Use AI-assisted development tools (coding copilots and large language models) to improve development, testing, documentation, code review, and troubleshooting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Advanced Python and enterprise backend/API development experience
• Strong unit/integration/regression testing experience and quality/coverage practices
• Ability to troubleshoot defects, failures, and performance issues using root-cause analysis
• Experience deploying and supporting containerized applications on Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager
• CI/CD and artifact management experience with GitHub, Jenkins, and Artifactory
• Secure software-development experience (vulnerability remediation, secrets protection, secure cloud configuration)

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, life insurance
• Short-term disability
• 401K plan
• Benefits eligibility-based