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JellyfishJellyfishUnited States

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Builds and maintains scalable data pipelines, third-party integrations (Jira, GitHub), and workflow orchestration using Python and tools like Terraform and Airflow. Provides technical expertise in a high-agency engineering team, focusing on performance and modern ETL patterns.

165k – 235k
RemoteBackend Engineering

About the role

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain data pipelines for storage, transformation and export
  • Develop integrations with third-party tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, incident management tools, AI coding assistants, etc.)
  • Create and maintain API clients to ingest data from external services
  • Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform
  • Build workflow orchestration for near-real-time and batch data processing
  • Design and implement data export pipelines
  • Develop internal tooling and agentic workflows to accelerate internal development
  • Provide technical expertise within your team and across the organization
  • Communicate effectively about project status and technical issues

About you

  • You know how to build and scale data pipelines
  • You are a strong programmer with extensive Python experience
  • You have experience building and maintaining integrations with third-party APIs
  • You're comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
  • You have familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster)

Bonus points if

  • You have worked at a rapidly scaling startup before and loved it
  • You have experience with Delta Lake and lakehouse architectures
  • You've built integrations with developer tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD systems)
  • You have experience with AI/LLM tool integrations (Claude, Copilot, etc.)
  • You bring experience and opinions about the different ways engineering teams can work and the tools they use

Skills

PythonTerraformAirflowPrefectDagsterJiraGitHubGitLabDelta LakeCloudFormation

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