Backend Software Engineer: Python (AI/ML)

Backend Software Engineer: Python (AI/ML)

W2 Contract

Pay Rate: $55 - $65 per hour

Location: Austin, TX - Remote Role

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and implement production-grade Python services supporting a distributed platform
• Solve algorithmic and data-structure-driven problems with clarity and correctness
• Own API design, service boundaries, and inter-service communication
• Build and deploy microservices on Kubernetes
• Improve reliability, performance, and observability of existing systems
• Participate in on-call and support rotations, and contribute to platform stability
• Collaborate closely with SRE teams on deployments, releases, and operational tooling
• Contribute to onboarding, automation, and internal developer experience

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Strong Python fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, async patterns, and error handling
• Ability to clarify requirements before coding and reason through multi-step problems
• Experience building distributed systems or backend platforms.
• Hands-on experience with REST and gRPC APIs, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes-based deployments
• Solid understanding of service reliability, observability, including logs, metrics, and tracing, and production debugging and incident response
• Comfortable working in a high-ownership, low-handholding environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AI platforms, LLMs, or agent orchestration
• Familiarity with automation bots or internal developer tooling
• Experience supporting large internal user bases or shared platforms
• Prior SRE or DevOps exposure

Bayside Solutions, Inc. is not able to sponsor any candidates at this time. Additionally, candidates for this position must qualify as a W2 candidate.

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