Senior Software Engineer - Python / DevOps

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help build and scale a workflow orchestration platform for a rapidly growing organization undergoing a large-scale digital transformation initiative. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on developing reliable, production-grade software and workflow automation solutions within a modern cloud environment. The ideal candidate will have strong Python development experience, expertise with workflow orchestration technologies, and a track record of building and supporting scalable production systems. This is a 3-month contract engagement with the potential for extension. U.S. work authorization is required. No visa sponsorship is available at this time.

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer (Python, AWS, Workflow Orchestration)

Location: Remote (U.S.-based only)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain workflow orchestration solutions using Python and modern orchestration frameworks
• Build reliable, scalable, and observable data and application workflows supporting critical business operations
• Integrate cloud data platforms, internal applications, and third-party services through APIs and distributed systems
• Develop and support deployment pipelines, release processes, and environment management across development, testing, and production
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility for production workloads
• Design retry strategies, recovery mechanisms, and fault-tolerant processes for workflow execution
• Support secure application configuration, authentication, access controls, and secrets management
• Partner closely with data, application, and cloud engineering teams to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities
• Create operational documentation, deployment guides, and support runbooks
• Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to platform reliability, performance, and engineering best practices
  
  

Required Skills & Experience

• 7 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or backend application development
• Strong commercial experience building applications and services in Python
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production workflow orchestration platforms
• Hands-on experience with Prefect or similar workflow orchestration technologies
• Experience deploying and operating cloud-native applications within AWS environments
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake or comparable technologies
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, observability, and production support practices
• Experience integrating systems through APIs, distributed services, and data pipelines
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform is highly preferred
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, version control, and code review practices
  
  

Compensation

• Up to $90/hour
• 3-month contract with strong possibility of extension
  
  

Additional Information

• Role can be performed remotely from within the United States
• Must be authorized to work in the United States — no visa sponsorship available
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, dbt, event-driven architectures, or modern cloud data platforms is considered a plus
• Title may be flexible based on experience (e.g., Senior Platform Engineer, Lead Platform Engineer, Staff Platform Engineer)
  
  

For more information or to apply, contact Ryan Dwyer at rdwyer@Talener.com