Senior Python Engineer – Modeling & Simulation (Remote)

Code Metal; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plan with 100% premium

401k with 5% matching

Paid Time Off

Flexible hybrid or remote work

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Code Metal is seeking a senior backend engineer to build Python services, APIs, and cloud-scale infrastructure for advanced wargaming and defense simulations. You will interface with frontend tooling, integrate with multiple simulators, and ensure data provenance and reproducibility across distributed systems.

The role requires designing scalable APIs (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), containerized deployments with Docker, and close collaboration with government stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Professional experience with collaborative, enterprise-level software development in Python.
• Experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and distilling them into software designs.
• Experience with SDLC practices including code review, testing, CI/CD, release management, and build systems.
• Familiarity with machine learning tools and frameworks.
• Expertise building scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
• Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application development.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs that orchestrate mission- and campaign-level simulation runs, collect their outputs, and expose results to analysts and government stakeholders.
• Build scenario-generation, operational and mission planning workflows, and Monte-Carlo based sensitivity-analysis for our wargaming platform.
• Build distributed, cloud-scale infrastructure that scales simulations across developer workstations, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud compute while preserving reproducibility and model provenance.
• Build data ingestion, normalization, and analysis pipelines that turn raw simulation output into decision-ready insight for defense users.
• Gather requirements from government stakeholders, domain experts, and analysts, and distill them into clear software designs.
• Employ strong SDLC practices throughout - code review, testing, continuous integration, release management, and build systems.

Skills

Python

Requirements gathering

SDLC practices

API design

Tools

Docker

AWS/GCP/Azure

REST/GraphQL/gRPC tooling

Job description

Code Metal is seeking a senior backend engineer to build Python services, APIs, and cloud-scale infrastructure for advanced wargaming and defense simulations. You will interface with frontend tooling, integrate with multiple simulators, and ensure data provenance and reproducibility across distributed systems.

The role requires designing scalable APIs (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), containerized deployments with Docker, and close collaboration with government stakeholders.