Position: Backend Engineer (Python, Kubernetes)
Company: datarobot.com
Category: Python
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**As a Backend Engineer you will:**

- Design, build and improve core services (authentication, configuration, permissions, etc.) and the platform that will be used by other teams to run their own services
- Measure and improve the capacity and performance of the components owned by the team
- Seek, give, and receive constructive feedback to teammates through code and specification reviews
- Create and maintain automated tests 
- Manage individual projects and milestones with abundant communication of progress

**Requirements:**

- Demonstrable knowledge of computer science fundamentals, whether by degree or otherwise
- 3+ years building applications with Python
- 1+ years experience with Kubernetes and modern cloud native architectures
- Personal drive to get things finished
- Effective communication behavior

**Desired:**

- Linux proficiency
- Experience working in Python with Flask, Mongo, and Pytest
- Experience supporting user-facing code and APIs
- Publicly reviewable contributions to interesting development projects
- Experience working with complex distributed systems
- Good writing and communication skills
- System/performance engineering proficiency (profiling process memory/cpu/io/network usage, system calls, flame graphs)