Top Remote Python Jobs in Washington, DC

Owns build and deployment automation, platform health, scaling, monitoring, and high-availability DevOps pipelines. The role involves developing self-service tools, expanding a multi-account AWS environment, improving SRE practices, and securing systems for commercial and high-side environments. Requires strong AWS, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, scripting, and monitoring expertise, plus U.S. citizenship and TS/SCI with full-scope polygraph clearance. Travel to a Washington, DC customer site may reach 50%.

Designs and deploys secure, scalable solutions for military and operational customers. Responsibilities include technical discovery, infrastructure validation, network configuration, deployment readiness, security accreditation support, API and data integrations, technical demonstrations, pilot deployments, and translating field experience into reusable implementation patterns. The role partners with Sales, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cybersecurity, Product, and customers, and requires 30–50% travel.

Build and operate Dragos’s web application, GraphQL and gRPC APIs, and client SDKs. Develop React and TypeScript features, design versioned API contracts, maintain Python, TypeScript, and Go SDKs, and collaborate with Product, Design, and backend engineering. Improve performance, accessibility, observability, security, testing, and code quality while supporting security data at scale.

Operate and maintain large Kubernetes clusters across data centers and public clouds. Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, storage, DNS, and control-plane issues; participate in on-call incident response; perform upgrades and capacity changes; build monitoring dashboards and alerts; automate repetitive work with Go or Python; maintain documentation and use AI tools to improve engineering workflows.

A 12-week unpaid fellowship providing hands-on training in Palantir Foundry and AIP. Participants attend live virtual instruction, complete technical projects, engage with Palantir engineers and leadership, and earn a professional certification. The program seeks builders with technical experience in software, data, automation, process improvement, prototyping, or related fields. Exceptional performers may interview for roles at Palantir or partner companies.

Design and implement C++ features for MongoDB’s replication infrastructure, improving availability, recovery, consistency, performance, and fault tolerance. Diagnose distributed-systems issues, develop comprehensive tests, collaborate across engineering teams, participate in design and code reviews, and mentor junior engineers. The role involves owning technical work from investigation through delivery and contributing to major MongoDB releases.

Develop and maintain MongoDB server workload resilience infrastructure in C++ or Rust. Design workload policies for rate limiting, prioritization, overload mitigation, availability, and performance. Write unit and integration tests, investigate failures, improve observability, diagnose and fix complex distributed-system issues, and lead technical projects. Collaborate across engineering teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in hiring, and improve operational readiness, monitoring, incident management, and rollout processes.

Designs, operates, and improves production Kubernetes platforms across cloud environments. Manages ArgoCD GitOps workflows, Terraform infrastructure, CI/CD integrations, platform reliability, observability, security controls, and developer enablement. Collaborates with application teams to onboard services, create self-service tooling and documentation, respond to incidents, and improve platform availability and performance.

Build and enforce workload safety standards across Affirm’s Amazon EKS fleet. Responsibilities include Kubernetes resource management, workload isolation, disruption handling, cluster capacity analysis, policy automation, production debugging, incident response, fleet-wide rollouts, technical leadership, mentoring, and measuring infrastructure impacts on availability, latency, risk, and cost.

Design, operate, and scale SailPoint’s AWS-based Kubernetes infrastructure and service mesh for a global, mission-critical SaaS platform. Responsibilities include cluster architecture, networking, security, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, capacity planning, incident response, compliance, and platform standards. The role influences engineering teams globally, participates in 24x7 on-call support, leads service mesh strategy, and improves reliability, performance, deployment efficiency, and operational practices.

Leads software quality engineering across digital banking products by designing scalable automated tests, expanding frameworks, integrating testing into CI/CD, analyzing defects, and closing testing gaps. Partners with engineering and product teams on quality strategy, reviews automation code, mentors SDETs and QA professionals, leads testing teams, supports bug triage, and establishes consistent testing standards across multiple product areas.

Build and maintain automated data quality testing for customer data pipelines. Responsibilities include developing dbt, Soda, and SQL checks; validating schemas, loads, sequencing, and downstream reconciliations; detecting anomalies; managing severity levels and customer overrides; reporting quality metrics; and partnering with engineering teams to embed testing into new pipelines. The role requires strong backend testing, SQL, Python, Airflow, and Databricks experience, along with excellent debugging and communication skills.

Own and improve Hex’s cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, databases, security, cost management, and single-tenant deployment systems. The role involves selecting and delivering infrastructure projects, operating Kubernetes and AWS environments, scaling PostgreSQL, implementing infrastructure as code, and building customer-facing platform capabilities. Engineers are expected to handle on-call responsibilities, write application code when needed, and independently turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into shippable solutions.

Own and deliver highly available, low-latency backend identity systems supporting consumer onboarding, authentication, and verification. Lead quarterly team goals, guide engineers through ambiguous problems, collaborate with product and design partners, monitor system reliability, improve engineering standards, support on-call operations, and mentor team members. The role requires designing and launching distributed systems at scale using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

Build testing tools, frameworks, metrics, and standards for Cedar’s engineering teams. Improve test-suite reliability, speed, coverage, service-to-service testing, and CI/CD integration. Establish testing best practices, connect tests to product behavior, and lead quality-improvement projects from investigation through adoption. The role requires strong software development and testing expertise in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience using modern testing frameworks and measuring test performance and reliability.

Principal Engineer responsible for defining the long-term architecture and modernization strategy for GitLab’s Fulfillment platform. The role drives technical direction across entitlements, licensing, provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management. Responsibilities include hands-on distributed systems engineering, migrations, performance and reliability improvements, cross-team influence, AI-assisted engineering adoption, and mentoring senior technical staff.

Lead the mobile engineering team in evolving iOS and Android applications toward an AI-native, thin-client architecture. Define participant API and platform direction, contribute Python to backend services, establish AI-assisted development processes, improve DevOps and continuous delivery, mentor engineers, and partner closely with Product and Design. The role requires principal-level technical leadership, product focus, system architecture expertise, and hands-on use of AI coding agents.

Lead Headway’s Infrastructure team, owning AWS cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, LLM platform capabilities, databases, observability, reliability, and incident response. Hire and develop engineers, establish self-service platform practices, reduce incident blast radius, define production readiness for AI workloads, and partner with Security and product engineering teams. The role combines technical leadership, people management, platform strategy, design reviews, and hands-on incident response.

Manage the Loans Lifecycle software engineering team at Affirm. Set technical strategy, lead delivery of business-critical projects, ensure system reliability and operational readiness, establish quality standards, collaborate with product and analytics teams, and coach engineers. The role focuses on highly available distributed financial systems and audit-grade ledger technology using backend technologies including Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Own and improve Dropbox’s Windows endpoint platform, including provisioning, application delivery, patching, compliance, security configuration, troubleshooting, fleet health, and automation. Build code-managed endpoint operations using Intune, FleetDM, osquery, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps practices. Lead cross-functional improvements, establish reliable deployment workflows, mentor engineers, review code and designs, and document reusable operational practices.

Build Apollo’s AI-powered Builder Studio end to end, including chat-driven app creation, live previews, generated-app runtimes, workflows, integrations, delegated permissions, security, and reliability. The role requires strong full-stack development, production LLM experience, frontend expertise with complex UIs, backend and workflow design, and ownership of an ambiguous 0-to-1 product.

Develop and ship phased software projects for Affirm’s mobile card acquisition team. Collaborate with product, design, and analytics stakeholders; build web and mobile applications and scalable APIs; monitor operational metrics; support availability and on-call efforts; participate in code reviews, interviews, and team development.

Deploy production software alongside military operators in restricted and air-gapped environments. Integrate core and simulation platforms with partner C2 systems and databases, write scripts, transform schemas, debug distributed systems, analyze logs, isolate failures, and convert recurring field workarounds into reusable product capabilities. Brief engineers and senior military stakeholders while translating mission needs into technical solutions.

Develop and launch scalable full-stack search systems using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Kotlin. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders, balance delivery speed with system reliability, debug code, participate in code reviews, write tested and extensible software, and contribute to team growth and communication.

Build and maintain authentication and fine-grained authorization systems using Auth0 and OpenFGA. Own OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect implementations, identity federation, token flows, and permissions for AI agents. Lead cross-team technical projects, set engineering standards, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend development skills and experience with identity providers, ReBAC systems, and complex multi-tenant authorization models.