Distinguished Python Engineer (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: from 6000 EUR/month.
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.
