Senior Python Engineer (Webshare product)

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.

What’s in store for you:

You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:

• 6PB+ Ceph storage
• 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems
• 300k+ service requests/sec processed
• 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed
  
  
  

Your day-to-day:

• Build and maintain performant backend APIs that power Webshare’s proxy infrastructure
• Own the design and delivery of services that handle billions of requests daily
• Collaborate in a highly autonomous team to scope, plan, and execute work with minimal meetings
• Investigate and resolve production issues across distributed systems
• Balance time equally between features, experiments, tech debt, and bug fixes
• Operate and improve our containerized infrastructure running on Docker Swarm with Traefik
• Continuously improve system performance, observability, and cost-efficiency
  
  
  

Your skills & experience:

• Strong experience with Python and Django (or similar backend frameworks)
• Proven experience designing and scaling APIs
• Familiarity with distributed systems and async architectures
• Comfortable in a Docker-based environment (preferably Swarm)
• Willingness to understand deep networking concepts (BGP, CIDR, ASNs)
• Fluent English (international team)
• Can handle working with a remote team (we’re worldwide)
  
  
  

Nice to have:

• Experience with very large datasets
• Experience with proxies or other networking-related technologies
• Experience with golang
  
  
  

Salary:

• Gross salary: from 6500 EUR/month + quarterly KPI-based performance bonus is applicable
  
  
  

To support your professional growth and make you feel taken care of, we’ve put together an expansive benefit package. It covers learning, well-being, celebration, and much more — learn all about it here.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.