Senior Python Developer (Webshare product)
Vilnius
Engineering – Webshare /
Full Time /
Hybrid
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).
- Experience with very large datasets.
- Experience with proxies or other networking-related technologies.
- Experience with golang.
Nice to have:
Salary:
- Gross salary: 5600 – 7000 EUR/month. Keep in mind that we are open to discuss a different salary based on your skills and competencies.
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.
