Staff Python Engineer

Location: Poland, Romania, or Brazil

Company

hirify.global is hiring for a client operating a website, communications, and marketing platform serving more than 8,000 schools in over 115 countries.

What you will do

• Own technical strategy, modernization planning, and operational reliability for the communications platform.
• Define scalable architecture, migration plans, and infrastructure improvement initiatives.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, SLOs, observability, and incident management.
• Support production operations across Kubernetes, queue-driven systems, and multi-cloud environments.
• Set architecture review and Infrastructure-as-Code standards across engineering teams.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational reviews while using AI-assisted development tools to evolve the platform.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience as a Staff Engineer or senior-level individual contributor supporting high-scale communications or messaging platforms.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems operations, cloud-native technologies, and Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.
• Experience leading modernization or migration initiatives for production systems.
• Proficiency with observability tools, monitoring frameworks, and incident response practices.
• Strong Python development and operational experience.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar technologies.
• Strong communication, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting C/C++ production systems.
• Familiarity with messaging and notification infrastructure, including email or SMS delivery systems.
• Experience with AWS-native messaging technologies such as SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, or KEDA.
• Prior experience supporting large-scale modernization or migration initiatives.
• Background in EdTech, SaaS, or other highly available customer-facing platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture is built and shaped by the people who join.
• Work directly with client engineering leadership in a hands-on individual contributor role.
• The platform supports independent schools, public school districts, international schools, and universities worldwide.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed against the role requirements; matching candidates are contacted within 2 business days.
• Due to high application volume, individual responses cannot be guaranteed.