Senior Python Engineer (Webshare product)

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Solve complex challenges and maintain large-scale infrastructure, processing billions of requests daily and continuously improving system performance and efficiency.
We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.  What’s in store for you: You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers: - 6PB+ Ceph storage - 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems - 300k+ service requests/sec processed - 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed Your day-to-day:
  • Build and maintain performant backend APIs that power Webshare’s proxy infrastructure.
  • Own the design and delivery of services that handle billions of requests daily.
  • Collaborate in a highly autonomous team to scope, plan, and execute work with minimal meetings.
  • Investigate and resolve production issues across distributed systems.
  • Balance time equally between features, experiments, tech debt, and bug fixes.
  • Operate and improve our containerized infrastructure running on Docker Swarm with Traefik.
  • Continuously improve system performance, observability, and cost-efficiency.
  • Your skills & experience:
  • Strong experience with Python and Django (or similar backend frameworks).
  • Proven experience designing and scaling APIs.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems and async architectures.
  • Comfortable in a Docker-based environment (preferably Swarm).
  • Willingness to understand deep networking concepts (BGP, CIDR, ASNs).
  • Fluent English (international team).
  • Can handle working with a remote team (we’re worldwide).

  • Nice to have:
  • Experience with very large datasets.
  • Experience with proxies or other networking-related technologies.
  • Experience with golang.

  • Salary:
  • Gross salary: from 6500 EUR/month +  quarterly KPI-based performance bonus is applicable.

  • To support your professional growth and make you feel taken care of, we’ve put together an expansive benefit package. It covers learning, well-being, celebration, and much more  — learn all about it here.
    Salary
    €6.500 per month
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