Remote Senior Python Engineer – Data Pipelines & AWS

Eliassen Group; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 102,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Python Developer to build and operate components of a SaaS risk and compliance AI platform. You will primarily work in Python on Linux, ingest large datasets, and deploy on AWS, contributing to modernization and production support for the screening platform.

Remote contract role with benefits for W2 consultants; compensation ranges $74.00–$78.00 per hour. Strong emphasis on end-to-end ownership and modern data architectures.

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: 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

Independent projects

Startup exposure

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Python Developer to build and operate components of a SaaS risk and compliance AI platform. You will primarily work in Python on Linux, ingest large datasets, and deploy on AWS, contributing to modernization and production support for the screening platform.

Remote contract role with benefits for W2 consultants; compensation ranges $74.00–$78.00 per hour. Strong emphasis on end-to-end ownership and modern data architectures.