Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. O'Reilly Media is a company dedicated to sharing knowledge and fostering innovation. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer well-versed in Python and Django to contribute to the development and maintenance of key features within their learning platform.

Responsibilities

• Write and ship code utilizing Python and frameworks such as Django to deliver platform features and improve platform performance in a microservice environment
• Take ownership of the full lifecycle of services, including deployment, monitoring, alerting, and triage to quickly diagnose and resolve production issues
• Work in an agile environment participating in agile ceremonies and shipping code regularly
• Participate in code reviews offering constructive feedback ensuring the team adheres to the highest standards of performance, security, and Python/Django best practices
• Partner closely with product management, UX, QA and engineering colleagues to break down complex requirements. define technical scope, and map out architectural solutions for a microservices environment
• Act as a mentor to engineering colleagues by sharing your backend expertise and fostering a culture of continuous learning
• Being comfortable with AI tooling
• Leverage AI tooling to enhance development workflows, improve code quality and assist in tasks like code generation, debugging, testing, and reviewing

Skills

• 2+ years of being a Senior Engineer
• 5+ years experience as an engineer with relevant experience
• Proficiency in the programming language Python
• Proficiency in Django or equivalent web frameworks (i.e. Flask)
• Experience with building, monitoring and debugging microservices
• Experience writing automated tests using tools like Django's TestCase or PyTest, or similar
• Familiarity with the following technologies and tools or their cognates: Redis, Celery, Relational databases, such as Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GCP
• AI-Augmented Development: Has the ability to demonstrate using AI-enabled development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) to streamline coding, debugging, and infrastructure-as-code authoring
• Experience with Node.js
• Experience with React
• Experience with OAuth, OIDC, and/or SAML
• Experience with Zuora or Braintree APIs
• Experience with Salesforce APIs
• Experience with JavaScript

Benefits

• Remote, United States

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