Key skills
PythonAILLMClaudeAgenticAirflowTerraformCloudFormationGitHubGitLabJiraCI/CDCommunication
About this role
Jellyfish is changing how product development happens, helping engineering teams learn how to work together and communicate more effectively. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who's passionate about building robust data pipelines and integrating with third-party APIs. The role involves developing data infrastructure and providing technical expertise within the team.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain data pipelines for storage, transformation and export
- Develop integrations with third-party tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, incident management tools, AI coding assistants, etc.)
- Create and maintain API clients to ingest data from external services
- Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Build workflow orchestration for near-real-time and batch data processing
- Design and implement data export pipelines
- Develop internal tooling and agentic workflows to accelerate internal development
- Provide technical expertise within your team and across the organization
- Communicate effectively about project status and technical issues
Requirements:
- You know how to build and scale data pipelines
- You are a strong programmer with extensive Python experience
- You have experience building and maintaining integrations with third-party APIs
- You're comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- You have familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster)
- You are great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing
- You consider both the needs of the user and the needs of the business when designing a solution
- You love learning new things and sharing knowledge with others
- You have strong communication skills and enjoy working as part of a team
- Located in EST or CST time zone
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US
- You have worked at a rapidly scaling startup before and loved it
- You have experience with Delta Lake and lakehouse architectures
- You've built integrations with developer tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD systems)
- You have experience with AI/LLM tool integrations (Claude, Copilot, etc.)
- You bring experience and opinions about the different ways engineering teams can work and the tools they use