Principal Python Engineer for Agentic AI

Deutsche Telekom AG; United States; A distancia; USD 100.000 - 156.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Deutsche Telekom Services Europe (DTSE) is seeking an experienced senior software lead to drive the development of Python backends for LLM-backed agent applications and to guide a team of engineers through architecture decisions and best practices.

You will improve and stabilize existing systems, implement new features, and collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions across cloud environments.

Formación

• 8+ years of production-grade software experience in Python.
• Experience leading engineers or teams and defining engineering standards.
• Proficient in API design, distributed systems, scalability, observability, and production operations.
• Knowledge of LLM and Agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex); Azure/OpenAI APIs is a plus.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB.
• Cloud and DevOps: Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI), Azure/AWS/GCP.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the development and improvement of Python backends for LLM-backed agent applications and our Agentic AI platform.
• Provide technical direction for a team of Agentic AI engineers; define standards and review architecture.
• Stabilize and enhance existing solutions, with better visualization, automated validations, observability, and QA.
• Translate business requirements into sustainable technical solutions; identify new use cases for automation and data science.
• Mentor engineers, coach best practices, and promote a strong software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders; explain complex tech clearly to non-tech colleagues.
• Drive architecture discussions, code reviews, and pair programming to deliver production-ready solutions.

Conocimientos

Python backends

Technical leadership

Software architecture

LLM frameworks

Relational databases

RESTful APIs

Cloud & DevOps

English language

Herramientas

FastAPI

Pydantic

Temporal

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Azure OpenAI

OpenAI APIs

PostgreSQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Docker

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Descripción del empleo

Location: Romania

Which challenges are expecting you

• You will lead the development and improvement of our Python backends for LLM-backed agent applications, such as chatbots, as well as the ongoing evolution of our Agentic AI platform.
• You will provide technical direction for a team of Agentic AI engineers, define engineering standards, review architectural decisions, and support the team in delivering scalable, reliable, and production‑ready solutions.
• You will improve customer experience by stabilizing and enhancing existing solutions, including better visualization, automated validations, function calling, agent actions, observability, and quality assurance.
• You will identify and implement new business requirements and translate them into sustainable technical solutions.
• You will drive cooperation with the business and actively contribute to customer workshops, meetings, and calls. The ability to explain technical topics clearly to business colleagues and demonstrate a consultant’s mindset is essential.
• You will lead technical brainstorming sessions, architecture discussions, code reviews, and pair programming sessions.
• You will identify potential use cases for automation, Agentic AI, and data science. Innovative ideas are welcome.
• You will actively mentor engineers, support their development, and promote software engineering best practices across the team.

Your skills

• At least 8 years of experience building and operating production‑grade software in Python, preferably using frameworks such as FastAPI, Pydantic, Temporal, and similar technologies.
• Proven experience leading engineers, technical workstreams, or software development teams.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, API design, asynchronous processing, scalability, resilience, and production operations.
• Preferably strong knowledge of LLM and Agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, as well as Azure OpenAI and OpenAI APIs. Ideally, you have already built and operated a production‑ready solution using these technologies.
• Practical experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, in‑memory databases such as Redis, and document or search databases such as Elasticsearch and MongoDB.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating RESTful APIs and web service applications in production.
• Cloud and DevOps experience, including Docker, CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, and deployment to Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Understanding of production requirements for Agentic AI systems, including testing, evaluation, observability, security, cost management, and reliability.
• You are comfortable making technical decisions, explaining trade‑offs, and aligning engineers and stakeholders around a clear solution.
• You are flexible, comfortable with changing priorities, and prefer working in agile environments such as XP, Scrum, or Lean.
• You can explain complex architectures and technologies in a clear and accessible way to customers and business stakeholders.
• You actively mentor more junior personnel and share your knowledge of software development lifecycle and best practices.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• German language skills.
• Prompt engineering and LLM evaluation experience.
• Familiarity with MLOps or AI workflow orchestration tools such as MLflow or Dagster.
• Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, or LLM observability tools.
• Domain‑specific experience in telecommunications or finance.

Deutsche Telekom Services Europe (DTSE) was founded by Deutsche Telekom AG and delivers support services, with focus on HR, for the European footprint of DT Group.

Join us in this international environment and you’ll be exposed to many different competencies, cultures and languages.

DTSE‑RO is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decision at DTSE‑RO are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, with no regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.

DTSE‑RO will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.