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Staff Python Engineer (Django) at Privy. About the Role. . We're seeking a hands-on Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for our Django-based SMS marketing platform. This is a critical role focused on maintaining stability while evolving a high-volume system. This position will build trust as a technical expert while helping the team make great decisions to improve and scale messaging infrastructure.. Key Responsibilities. . Lead technical initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability for our high-volume SMS platform. . Maintain and simplify distributed system for segmenting and delivering SMS messages at high volume. . Create technical documentation, runbooks, and development tooling to reduce knowledge siloing and improve developer experience. . Provide architectural and system design direction for new capabilities and scaling existing capabilities. . Support engineers through hands-on technical mentorship while remaining actively involved in code development. . Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to or lead incident response as necessary. . Collaborate with Ruby/Rails engineering team leaders to establish engineering strategy. . Requirements. . 10+ years of hands-on SaaS software development experience with at least 3+ years developing in Python/Django. . Deep experience with message queuing systems (Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS, etc.), distributed systems, and both monolithic and service oriented architectures. . Proven track record of improving legacy codebases and experience working with legacy Django systems - experience upgrading legacy Django systems is a plus. . Strong systems design skills with experience building horizontally scalable architectures. . Experience with SMS/telephony or email delivery systems - Twilio is a plus. . Strong written communication skills and established habits communicating asynchronously and teaching through technical documentation. . Have been in a Senior+ hands-on coding role in the last 2 years. . Company Location: United States.