Python Software Engineer

Job title: Python Software Engineer – Network Management & DDI

Location: Riverton, UT, 84065

Initial Assignment Length: 12 months

Job Summary

We are looking for a Python Software Engineer to design and develop software platforms for enterprise network and infrastructure management, with a particular focus on DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI/IPAM).

This is primarily a software development role. You will build Python services, APIs, automation frameworks, and integrations that manage network resources and provide infrastructure capabilities as programmable, self-service services.

You will work closely with networking, datacenter, compute, storage, and platform engineering teams to transform traditionally manual network-management processes into scalable, API-driven software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Python Software Development

● Design, develop, test, and maintain production-quality software primarily in Python.

● Build scalable backend services, APIs, libraries, and automation frameworks for infrastructure and network management.

● Apply modern software engineering practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, version control, API design, and software lifecycle management.

● Design software that can reliably operate across multiple datacenters and large infrastructure environments.

● Troubleshoot complex software and distributed-system problems and implement sustainable fixes.

Network Management Software – DNS, DHCP & IPAM

● Design and develop software solutions for enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI/IPAM).

● Build software for automated IP allocation, reservation, discovery, reclamation, and lifecycle management.

● Develop APIs and workflows for managing DNS records, DHCP configuration, subnets, address pools, leases, and related network resources.

● Build integrations between DDI/IPAM platforms and compute, networking, provisioning, cloud, and datacenter systems.

● Develop software to automate network-resource onboarding and configuration across multiple datacenters and environments.

● Help establish authoritative infrastructure data and source-of-truth models for network resources.

APIs, Automation & Platform Integration

● Design and implement REST APIs and other programmatic interfaces for network and infrastructure services.

● Build integrations with infrastructure platforms, CMDBs, provisioning systems, and automation frameworks.

● Develop event-driven and workflow-based automation for infrastructure lifecycle management.

● Build solutions that dynamically allocate and recycle IP addresses and other network resources for compute infrastructure.

● Integrate network-management services with bare-metal provisioning, PXE/network boot, virtualization, and cloud workflows.

● Enable infrastructure capabilities to be consumed through APIs and self-service platforms rather than manual operational processes.

Reliability & Observability

● Build monitoring, metrics, logging, and health-check capabilities into network-management services.

● Implement dashboards and alerting using technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar platforms.

● Define and track service metrics such as availability, latency, capacity, error rates, and resource utilization.

● Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for software and network-management services.

● Improve reliability through automation, testing, observability, and operational tooling.

Required Skills & Experience

Software Engineering

● Strong Python programming skills and professional software development experience.

● Experience designing and developing production backend services and applications.

● Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including: ○ Object-oriented and modular software design

○ REST API design

○ Data structures and algorithms

○ Automated testing

○ Git and modern development workflows

○ CI/CD

○ Debugging and performance troubleshooting

● Experience developing software that integrates with external systems through APIs, databases, messaging systems, or event-driven architectures.

● Strong Linux development and troubleshooting skills.

Networking & DDI

● Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, subnets, routing, VLANs, DNS, and DHCP.

● Experience with or strong knowledge of IP Address Management (IPAM).

● Understanding of DNS zones, records, resolution, DHCP scopes, leases, reservations, and IP address lifecycle management.

● Experience developing or integrating network-management systems through APIs.

● Ability to translate networking requirements into maintainable software abstractions and automated workflows.

Infrastructure Automation

● Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or similar technologies.

● Familiarity with CMDB or infrastructure source-of-truth systems.

● Understanding of bare-metal provisioning and infrastructure lifecycle management.

● Experience building automated infrastructure onboarding and provisioning workflows.

Collaboration & Ownership

● Comfortable working across software engineering, networking, compute, storage, datacenter, and SRE teams.

● Ability to take ownership of a software service from architecture and development through deployment and production operations.

● Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to turn ambiguous infrastructure requirements into well-defined software solutions.

● Strong focus on automation, reliability, maintainability, and scalability.

Nice to Have

● Experience developing or operating enterprise DDI/IPAM platforms such as Nautobot, NetBox, Infoblox, BlueCat, Kea DHCP, BIND, or similar technologies.

● Experience building network automation or network management software.

● Experience with FastAPI, Flask, Django, or similar Python frameworks.

● Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.

● Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native application development.

● Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, or workflow engines.

● Experience with large-scale internal infrastructure platforms or Infrastructure as a Product.

● SRE or DevOps experience.

● Experience with multi-datacenter or hybrid-cloud environments.

● Familiarity with PXE, network boot, OS imaging, and server bootstrap/provisioning systems.