Talener
Location: Remote (U.S.-based only)
· 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
· 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
· Up to $90/hour
· 3-month contract with strong possibility of extension
· 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, Senior Cloud Engineer)
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