Remote Senior Python Engineer - AI & Data Pipelines

Eliassen Group; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 102,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Remote Senior Python Developer role for Eliassen Group. Work on a SaaS risk and compliance AI platform, building data ingestion, storage, search, and cloud deployment components in Python on Linux. Strong AWS exposure with Lambda/ECS/EC2/RDS/SQS/S3 and a focus on modernization alongside production stability.

Open to candidates willing to work on a W2 basis with comprehensive benefits. Prior startup exposure and ML/NLP familiarity are advantageous but not required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Strong experience with Python and Linux.
• Proven experience ingesting, storing, and querying messy data at scale.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other SQL relational databases.
• Familiarity with ElasticSearch or other NoSQL search engines.
• Hands-on AWS experience with Lambda, ECS, EC2, RDS, SQS, S3, Route 53, and networking concepts.
• Demonstrated initiative in independent or self-managed projects.
• Adaptable, self-motivated, and curious, ideally with startup exposure.
• Nice to have: experience with NER, NLP, modeling, machine learning, or agent frameworks such as LangGraph.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Python services and data pipelines on Linux.
• Ingest, normalize, and query messy, large-scale datasets.
• Implement and optimize data models in PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
• Build and tune search capabilities using ElasticSearch or comparable engines.
• Deploy and operate workloads on AWS including Lambda, ECS, EC2, RDS, SQS, S3, Route 53, and core networking.
• Own components end to end including source code, testing and validation, interdependencies, and deployment strategies.
• Contribute to modernization while supporting production stability for the screening platform.

Skills

Python

Linux

Data ingestion at scale

Data storage

Data querying

NoSQL search engines

Independent projects

Startup exposure

NLP / ML (nice to have)

Tools

PostgreSQL

ElasticSearch

AWS (Lambda/ECS/EC2/RDS/SQS/S3)

Route 53

Networking concepts

Job description

Remote Senior Python Developer role for Eliassen Group. Work on a SaaS risk and compliance AI platform, building data ingestion, storage, search, and cloud deployment components in Python on Linux. Strong AWS exposure with Lambda/ECS/EC2/RDS/SQS/S3 and a focus on modernization alongside production stability.

Open to candidates willing to work on a W2 basis with comprehensive benefits. Prior startup exposure and ML/NLP familiarity are advantageous but not required.