Remote Backend Python MCP Engineer — Cloud-Native & Secure
EPAM Systems Inc
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Job summary
EPAM Systems is seeking a Backend Python MCP Engineer to join our team for a fully remote role based in Portugal. You will contribute to building an Enterprise Agent Development Platform—a cloud-native ecosystem that enables engineering teams to define, orchestrate, deploy, and observe AI agents at scale.
You will implement MCP server templates, develop onboarding workflows for enterprise MCP servers, and support a robust template library and delivery service, combining deep Python expertise
Qualifications
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing backend solutions in Python.
- Experience with asynchronous frameworks and API development.
Responsibilities
- Implement MCP protocol server-side components and reusable templates for enterprise onboarding
- Develop and maintain Python-based MCP modules using modern frameworks and asynchronous patterns
- Integrate telemetry instrumentation with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing, metrics, and logging
- Build and maintain MCP factory and delivery services to automate deployments
- Design secure, containerized workloads with security baselines
- Collaborate with platform and architecture teams to support CI/CD, governance, and observability standards
- Document MCP integration patterns and provide guidance for other development teams
- Optimize server performance and ensure reliability under production traffic
- Contribute to automation of deployment with AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway)
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Job description
EPAM Systems is seeking a Backend Python MCP Engineer to join our team for a fully remote role based in Portugal. You will contribute to building an Enterprise Agent Development Platform—a cloud-native ecosystem that enables engineering teams to define, orchestrate, deploy, and observe AI agents at scale.
You will implement MCP server templates, develop onboarding workflows for enterprise MCP servers, and support a robust template library and delivery service, combining deep Python expertise
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