Remote Senior Python Engineer — Data Pipelines & AWS

Eliassen Group; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 102,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Python Developer to build and operate components of a SaaS risk and compliance AI platform. The role involves hands-on development across data ingestion, storage, search, and cloud deployment.

You will work primarily in Python on Linux, leverage AWS services, and contribute to modernization and production support for the screening platform. Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing to work on a W2 basis.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Strong experience with Python and Linux.
• 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: LangGraph, NLP, ML experience.

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 programming

Linux proficiency

Data ingestion & querying

SQL databases (PostgreSQL)

NoSQL search (Elasticsearch)

AWS cloud services

Independent / self-motivated

Startup exposure

Tools

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

AWS services (Lambda, ECS, EC2, RDS)

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Python Developer to build and operate components of a SaaS risk and compliance AI platform. The role involves hands-on development across data ingestion, storage, search, and cloud deployment.

You will work primarily in Python on Linux, leverage AWS services, and contribute to modernization and production support for the screening platform. Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing to work on a W2 basis.