Principal Python Developer

We are looking for a Senior Backend Python Engineer with strong systems thinking and API integration experience to help design, build, and scale our AI-driven network operations platform. You will focus on backend services, data pipelines, and integrations with upstream tools, ensuring reliability, performance, and correctness in a production environment.Write clean, well-structured, testable Python code.Optimize for I/O, disk operations, and concurrency in a high-volume production environment.Contribute to system design for redundancy, fault tolerance, and scalability.Data Pipelines & Workflow OrchestrationDevelop and maintain workflows using Prefect (or similar orchestration tools) for:Document ingestion and preprocessing (e.g., manuals, internal docs).Vectorization pipelines and blob storage management for retrieval.Scheduled and event-driven workflows for ticket summarization, alarm correlation, compliance workflows, etc.Implement automatic retries, logging, and observability for all workflows.Integrations & ToolingIntegrate with a wide range of operational tools (e.g., device lookup, route lookup, trace route, change record lookup).Help transition existing “agentic tools” and internal scripts into MCP-based tools and standardized interfaces over time.Work with internal tool owners (e.g., networking automation platforms) using APIs, HTML scraping, or direct DB accesswhere needed.