Software Engineer (Python/DevOps)

corva.ai; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Corva.ai is seeking a Python backend developer to build and maintain Python applications and services, including asynchronous workloads, in a remote-first, B2B contract setting. You will contribute to infrastructure, delivery systems, and reliability across engineering teams.

You will implement CI/CD pipelines, configure cloud resources, containerized services, and monitor performance while mentoring colleagues and participating in an on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Four+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Python skills.
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, or GitOps.
• Familiar with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, or tracing.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Python asyncio.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python applications and services, including asynchronous workloads.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation to make releases more reliable.
• Configure cloud resources and work with containerized services.
• Monitor application health and performance, investigate issues, and optimize efficiency.
• Coordinate with partner teams, review code, document technical decisions, and mentor less experienced engineers.
• Take part in the DevOps on-call rotation, approximately two shifts per month.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud platforms

Async IO

Monitoring

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Role overview

Build and maintain Python software while improving the infrastructure and delivery systems that support it. The work spans application development, cloud operations, deployment automation, and reliability, with collaboration across engineering teams and participation in a rotating on-call schedule.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python applications and services, including asynchronous workloads.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation to make releases more reliable.
• Configure cloud resources and work with containerized services.
• Monitor application health and performance, investigate issues, and optimize efficiency.
• Coordinate with partner teams, review code, document technical decisions, and mentor less experienced engineers.
• Take part in the DevOps on-call rotation, approximately two shifts per month.

Requirements

• At least four years of professional software development experience and strong Python skills.
• Practical experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, or GitOps practices.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud platform.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, or tracing, and with message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis, plus Python asyncio.
• Strong debugging, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Flask or FastAPI, microservice architecture, security practices, or open-source projects.

Benefits and work setup

Remote-first B2B contract arrangement. The role offers ownership of work that affects the product and users, collaboration with an experienced team, and potential growth into a backend lead position.