Staff Application Engineer - Python

About the Role :

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Staff Engineer Application to lead the design, development, and optimization of backend services and data engineering pipelines.

As a key technical leader, you will be responsible for driving architectural decisions, ensuring high performance and scalability of distributed systems, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver robust enterprise Responsibilities :

• Lead the design and architecture of complex backend systems and scalable data pipelines.
• Define best practices for system design, including microservices architecture, service orchestration, and data modeling.
• Implement solutions for caching, rate-limiting, circuit breaking, and queuing.
• Develop high-performance, secure, and scalable backend services using Python and frameworks such as Flask, FastAPI, or Django.
• Build and maintain RESTful and GraphQL APIs, ensuring robust integration with frontend and external systems.
• Design and deploy applications on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, with hands-on use of services like :

1. AWS : Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, Glue

2. Azure : Functions, Blob Storage, Virtual Machines

3. GCP : Cloud Functions, Compute Engine, Dataflow

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