Platform & Integration Engineer - Real-Time Automation

SHI International Corp; Piscataway Township (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SHI International Corp. is seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain the applications atop its in-house automation platform for enterprise data center deployments.

You will implement operator web interfaces, backend services, and a robust pipeline engine, turning manual workflows into reliable, observable software used by integration technicians and engineers. The role emphasizes Python-based development, REST API design, inventory services, and hardware integration across multiple

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on Python development building production applications or tooling.
• Experience designing REST APIs and web applications in production.
• Relational databases and data access layer experience.
• Linux production service deployment experience.
• Experience with external APIs and device interfaces (REST, SSH/CLI).
• Automated testing and Git-based code review.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the operator-facing web application with dashboards and workflows.
• Develop backend services and REST APIs to expose inventory and run status.
• Extend the pipeline engine with retries, parallelism, and history features.
• Create real-time features using SSE or WebSockets and maintain CLI tools.
• Build reusable libraries and ensure clean module boundaries.

Skills

Python development

REST APIs

Web apps

Linux admin

Git workflows

Asynchronous programming

Networking

Testing

Tools

FastAPI

SQL (MariaDB/MySQL)

nginx

gunicorn/uvicorn

SSH/CLI

Redfish

Kea DHCP

Job description

SHI International Corp. is seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain the applications atop its in-house automation platform for enterprise data center deployments.

You will implement operator web interfaces, backend services, and a robust pipeline engine, turning manual workflows into reliable, observable software used by integration technicians and engineers. The role emphasizes Python-based development, REST API design, inventory services, and hardware integration across multiple