Senior Python Engineer — Real-Time Collaborative Docs Remote

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Global team

Flexible contract

Job summary

PandaDoc is seeking a Senior Python Engineer to join the Content engineering team. You will own backend systems powering real-time collaborative document editing, including the content model, data persistence, and event-driven pipelines (Kafka, NATS).

You will build and operate Python microservices with a focus on reliability, observability, and production readiness, while contributing to AI-powered workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Python development experience in production environments.
• Strong experience with relational databases: SQL, schema design, migrations, query optimization.
• Solid hands-on experience with message queues and event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ or similar).
• Deep understanding of AsyncIO and concurrent systems.
• Experience building and operating microservice architectures at scale.
• Comfortable reasoning about distributed systems: consistency, ordering, failure modes.
• Understanding of the full development lifecycle, from requirements to deployment to production monitoring.
• Nice to have: experience building or integrating AI agents, LLM-powered workflows, or agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the backend systems that power real-time collaborative document editing for tens of thousands of concurrent users.
• Own the content model and data persistence layer: schema design, migrations, compatibility, and long-term maintainability as the product grows.
• Build and maintain event-driven pipelines (Kafka, NATS) that process high volumes of frontend interactions and keep document state consistent across services.
• Contribute to the reliability, observability, and operational excellence of a large fleet of Python microservices.
• Ship product features end-to-end, from backend architecture to production monitoring, and care about how they behave after they ship.
• Contribute to our growing investment in AI-powered capabilities, including agentic document workflows.

Skills

Python development

Relational databases

AsyncIO

Microservices

Distributed systems

English communication

Tools

Kafka

NATS

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Grafana (Loki/Tempo/Mimir)

Job description

PandaDoc is seeking a Senior Python Engineer to join the Content engineering team. You will own backend systems powering real-time collaborative document editing, including the content model, data persistence, and event-driven pipelines (Kafka, NATS).

You will build and operate Python microservices with a focus on reliability, observability, and production readiness, while contributing to AI-powered workflows.