Senior Software Development Engineer - PYTHON PACKAGING

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Senior Software Development Engineer - PYTHON PACKAGING

THE ROLE: 

We are seeking a highly technical Python Packaging Engineer to drive the packaging and release of our Python packages. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and maintaining the systems that package, version, and publish our packages and components, ensuring reliability and consistency across our open-source package publishing and build infrastructure. As a member of the DevOps team you will shape packaging standards, improve CI/CD pipelines, and drive the reproducibility and trustworthiness of our releases. 

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in the Python packaging ecosystem, paired with a strong infrastructure and automation mindset. You are comfortable designing and maintaining robust release pipelines

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Publishing Pipeline: Contribute to the design, maintenance, and improvement of automated workflows for publishing Python packages
• Build & Release Infrastructure: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate testing, linting, and release processes across our components.
• Security & Supply Chain: Implement signing, attestation, and vulnerability scanning as part of the release process, strengthening our software supply chain
• Developer Experience: Reduce friction for engineers publishing packages by creating tooling, templates, and documentation that make packaging intuitive and consistent across teams 

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Strong Python proficiency and deep familiarity with the Python packaging ecosystem (PyPA standards, pyproject.toml, build backends such as setuptools, hatchling, flit, or poetry, wheel/sdist formats, and package managers such as pip or uv)
• Proficiency in C/C++ and CMake, with the ability to troubleshoot build failures across a diverse set of packages
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for package releases
• Proven experience with PyPI publishing workflows and package registry concepts

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Experience maintaining or contributing to open-source Python libraries
• Familiarity with software supply chain security practices (Sigstore, SBOM, SLSA, Dependabot)
• Experience building or operating PEP 503-compliant package repositories
• Familiarity with AWS services is a plus
• Experience packaging and publishing Python packages as native Linux packages (e.g. deb or rpm) is a plus

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent on the job pratcical experience. 

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