Senior Python Developer

Valiant Technologies LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking a Senior Python Developer to help design, develop, and maintain a firmwide AI Development Platform.

The role emphasizes building scalable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities for enterprise-wide AI adoption. Strong Python, distributed systems, and Kubernetes expertise are essential, along with cloud experience and modern DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall software engineering and development experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on Python development experience building and maintaining production-grade applications or libraries.
• Strong experience with Python, type annotations, automated testing, and static analysis.
• Production development experience with a statically typed language such as Java or C#.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, data structures, modular architecture, and dependency management.
• Experience with Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC).
• Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD), unit testing, and integration testing.
• Experience designing and developing APIs and SDKs.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes workload development, management, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain a firmwide AI Development Platform.
• Build scalable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities for enterprise AI adoption.
• Collaborate on cloud, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices; contribute to distributed systems.

Skills

Python development

Distributed systems

TDD

APIs & SDKs

Communication

Problem solving

Agile

Performance profiling

DevOps

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Cortex

Jenkins

GitOps

Job description

Senior Python Developer – AI Development Platform to help design, develop, and maintain a firmwide Artificial Intelligence (AI) Development Platform. The role focuses on building scalable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities that enable enterprise-wide adoption of AI and Generative AI technologies.

The ideal candidate will have strong Python development expertise, experience building production-grade applications and distributed systems, and a solid understanding of software engineering principles, cloud technologies, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of overall software engineering and development experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on Python development experience building and maintaining production-grade applications or libraries.
• Strong experience with Python, type annotations, automated testing, and static analysis.
• Production development experience with a statically typed language such as Java or C#.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, data structures, modular architecture, and dependency management.
• Experience with Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC).
• Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD), unit testing, and integration testing.
• Experience designing and developing APIs and SDKs.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes workload development, management, and deployment.
• Experience with multiprocessing, multithreading, asynchronous I/O, and performance profiling.
• Experience with CI/CD, Jenkins, GitOps, DevOps, and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience deploying applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Understanding of OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, and Cortex.
• Knowledge of Microservices Architecture and public/private cloud environments.
• Experience with SQL databases, Redis, and Kafka.
• Strong understanding of AI Agents, Agentic Orchestration, and Multi-Agent Workflow Automation.
• Hands-on experience with Agent Builder frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, and Microsoft Agent Framework.
• Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, embeddings, and vector databases.
• Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.