# Senior Backend Software Engineer

**Company:** [Jellyfish](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/jellyfish)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $165k – $235k/yr
**Skills:** Python, Terraform, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Delta Lake, CloudFormation
**Posted:** 2025-12-03

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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