Staff Python Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and development of highly scalable and maintainable ASP services powering ad delivery across multiple platforms.
• Architect and evolve the Slingshot platform toward modern, event-driven, and cloud-native paradigms.
• Own end-to-end delivery – from system design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and optimization.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to deliver robust ad-serving capabilities.
• Partner with Data and ML teams to enable intelligent ad selection, pacing optimization, and automated anomaly detection.
• Champion observability and reliability, ensuring high availability and operational excellence through Datadog, Grafana, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Mentor and guide engineers across teams, fostering a culture of technical rigor, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Influence the long-term technology roadmap, aligning engineering investments with SiriusXM’s strategic ad tech goals.

What You’ll Need

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in Python (Django, FastAPI, or similar frameworks) and backend architecture, including async programming and microservice design.
• Strong background in distributed systems and data pipelines, with experience using tools like Celery, Kafka, or Airflow.
• Experience integrating with ad servers or delivery platforms (e.g., Google Ad Manager, AdsWizz, Triton).
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes, including infrastructure automation and service scaling.
• Solid understanding of observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, Grafana) and CI/CD workflows.
• Proven success in driving cross-team technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and influencing architecture at an organizational level.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.