Senior Software Engineer (Python, gRPC)

US Citizenship and background check requiredProximity to Portland Oregon is a PLUSRemote opportunity -- ability to onboard in Portland Oregon (Seattle anyone?)Help build production-grade distributed systems that power cutting-edge applied AI solutions for American manufacturing: You’ll focus on backend architecture, develop scalable microservices and data pipelines, and help shape a growing technology platform.Top 3 Technical Skills:Python & Distributed Systems: Expert-level Python and 5 to 10+ years building scalable backend systems in Linux environments.Microservices, gRPC & Protobuf: Deep experience with service architecture, contract-first APIs, schema evolution and fault-tolerant communication.AI-Assisted Development: Agentic coding experience -- client falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum of full AI/agentic coding vs. augmentation.Bonus experience (for fun)Service Meshmonorepo build systems (Bazel, Buck, Pants)polyglot protobuf code generationAPI versioning at scale