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Sr. Python Developer with Media domain experience - 100% Remote

SaksoftUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 6, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This fully remote Senior Python Developer role offers a fantastic opportunity to leverage your media domain expertise and drive innovation within a dynamic tech environment. You'll thrive here if you're a proactive developer eager to contribute to impactful projects and expand your skillset. Apply today to join a forward-thinking team and advance your career!

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Remote
Location
United States
Posted
Yesterday
DockerFastAPIMicroservicesRustSQLAWSETLCDNDNSGoogle CloudHTTPKubernetesPythonTerraformpytest

Job Description

Job Title: Sr. Python Developer with Media domain experience.

Location: Remote

Duration: Long-term 

 

Need experience in the media/entertainment domain, AWS, Python, transcoding, or Encoding 

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain high-quality, modular, well-annotated Python code with a willingness to learn and contribute to Go and other languages used within the squad.
  • Design and implement APIs to integrate and propagate data across remote systems, managing both full and partial failures gracefully
  • Write and review GitHub pull requests, ensuring code quality through testing, type annotations and documentation.
  • Build observable systems incorporating effective logging, monitoring, tracing, and logging practices.

 

Required Technical Skills

  • Modern Python Proficiency
  • Writing maintainable, modular, and modern Python code
  • Basic understanding of asynchronous patterns and concepts like asyncio, event loop, threading, multiprocessing, and reliable data propagation techniques
  • Ability to write and review unit tests using pytest with a focus on mocking where appropriate
  • Familiarity with FastAPI and Celery, our primary frameworks for APIs and distributed task processing
  • Proficiency in reading and writing basic SQL queries
  • Understanding of TCPIP networking fundamentals, including basic DNS, HTTP requests and subnetting
  • We use FastAPI with Celery in most APIs
  • Proficient in reading and writing basic SQL queries
  • Understand the concepts of TCPIP networking and have a basic understanding of DNS, HTTP requests, and subnetting
  • Tooling Ecosystem
  • Experience with Docker and Linux
  • Familiarity with working within cloud providers AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and OCI
  • Exposure to building RESTful APIs

 

Bonus Skills

  • Familiarity with Python type annotations, immutability, mutability, and modular application design
  • Understanding of fundamental programming concepts like locking, concurrency,ncy and scoping
  • Working knowledge of Go or Rust
  • Knowledge of CDN or MultiCDN architectures
  • Concepts of ABR streaming, adaptive bitrate streaming
  • Experience building observable systems, log aggregation, metrics, pipelines, and ETL processes
  • Experience in API orchestration within multiCDN environments
  • Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
  • Experience working with distributed systems and designing fault-tolerant architectures
  • Experience with Kubernetes or general cloud infrastructure

 

Skills

Mandatory Skills: AWS Lambda, Microservices, Python

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