Python Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Python Software Engineer (Backend & Platform)

• Focus: Enterprise network and infrastructure management (DNS, DHCP, IPAM/DDI)

Description

Design and develop Python services, APIs, and automation frameworks for enterprise network resource management, especially DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI/IPAM). The role turns manual infrastructure operations into scalable, API-driven and self-service infrastructure capabilities, working across networking, datacenter, compute, storage, and platform engineering teams. You will also ensure reliability and observability for production systems operating across multiple datacenters.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain production-quality Python software.

• Build backend services, APIs, libraries, and automation frameworks for network and infrastructure management.

• Apply modern engineering practices: code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, version control, API design, and lifecycle management.

• Design solutions that reliably operate across large infrastructure environments and multiple datacenters.

• Troubleshoot complex software and distributed-system issues and implement durable fixes.

Network Management Software (DNS, DHCP & IPAM)

• Design and develop enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management solutions.

• Automate IP allocation, reservation, discovery, reclamation, and lifecycle management.

• Build APIs and workflows for DNS records, DHCP configuration, subnets, address pools, leases, and related network resources.

• Integrate DDI/IPAM platforms with compute, networking, provisioning, cloud, and datacenter systems.

• Automate network-resource onboarding and configuration across multiple datacenters.

• Help establish authoritative infrastructure data and source-of-truth models.

APIs, Automation & Platform Integration

• Implement REST APIs and other programmatic interfaces for network and infrastructure services.

• Build integrations with CMDB, provisioning, and automation frameworks.

• Develop event-driven and workflow-based automation for infrastructure lifecycle management.

• Dynamically allocate and recycle IP addresses and other network resources.

• Integrate with bare-metal provisioning, PXE/network boot, virtualization, and cloud workflows.

• Expose infrastructure capabilities via APIs and self-service platforms.

Reliability & Observability

• Add monitoring, metrics, logging, and health checks to network-management services.

• Build dashboards and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

• Define and track service metrics (availability, latency, capacity, errors, utilization).

• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.

• Improve reliability through automation, testing, observability, and operational tooling.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience

• Bachelor's degree required

• Strong Python programming experience in production backend development

• Experience designing and developing production backend services and applications

• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals (OOP/modular design, REST API design, data structures & algorithms, automated testing, Git workflows)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines

• Strong Linux development and troubleshooting skills

• Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, subnets, routing, VLANs, DNS, DHCP)

• Knowledge or experience with IP Address Management (IPAM) and DDI concepts (DNS zones/records, DHCP scopes/leases/reservations, IP lifecycle)

• Ability to translate networking requirements into maintainable software abstractions and automated workflows

• Experience integrating with external systems via APIs, databases, messaging, or event-driven architectures

• Experience with infrastructure automation (e.g., Ansible or Puppet)

• Familiarity with CMDB or infrastructure source-of-truth systems

• Comfort working across software engineering and networking/infrastructure/SRE teams and taking ownership from design to production operations

Benefits

Not specified in the provided posting.