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About the role
Required Experience
Experience developing scalable services using Python, using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic
Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
Experience working with relational databases
At least 5 years of professional experience building backend services
Nice to Have
Experience building high availability services using CI/CD, full ranges of test validation approaches, monitoring and alerting
Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT
Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers
Familiarity with AWS IAM, ALB/NLB, route53, S3, Cloudflare
Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka
Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems
Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware
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