Top Remote Python Jobs in Washington, DC

Design and build cloud cost-management capabilities, including forecasting, anomaly alerts, cost allocation, data pipelines, transformation models, visualizations, and reusable UI components. Own features end to end from planning through release while improving application reliability and performance. Collaborate closely with engineers and founding team members, contribute to technical design and roadmap decisions, and work pragmatically in a fast-moving distributed startup environment.

Develop open source SDKs, enterprise APIs, UIs, and backend systems supporting large-scale computer vision datasets. Build scalable, maintainable, performant, and well-tested software for unstructured data and AI workflows. Contribute to enterprise deployments across customer clouds and on-premises environments, while improving tooling, automation, engineering practices, and open source community initiatives in a remote-first team.

Provides mainframe patch-management expertise using SMP/E and z/OSMF. Responsibilities include CVE reporting, patch automation, response modeling, validation cadence, package stability reviews, dashboard improvements, baseline dataset development, vulnerability-tool integration, and secure patch deployment. The role also develops AI-driven prompts and automation for testing, RFB validation, and impact analysis while supporting z/OS and ISV software installation, maintenance, customization, and testing.

Validate and implement AI fencing controls across z/OS environments through adversarial testing, monitoring, alerting, forensic analysis, and sanitized validation. Design disruptive AI testing labs, test non-privileged user operations, support secure AI adoption, and assess GenieZ production readiness. Requires deep z/OS internals expertise, catalog management, USS security, software installation, complex troubleshooting, advanced testing, REXX, Python, and 10+ years of experience.

Technical lead for public-facing gRPC APIs and SDKs powering provider search, ranking, and dynamic copay lookups. Own API design, versioning, ranking/steerage logic, and reliability at scale. Write and review code and designs, mentor engineers, drive technical direction, partner with product and partner engineering, and support production operations and scaling decisions.

Leads the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable full-stack web applications. Coordinates frontend and backend developers, translates requirements into technical plans, reviews code, mentors engineers, assigns tasks, monitors delivery, troubleshoots technical issues, and contributes to architecture decisions. Oversees APIs, databases, integrations, deployments, releases, security, performance, documentation, and application improvements while collaborating with product, design, and business teams.

As a Gameplay Engineer, you'll design and refine networked gameplay systems, iterate on features, and collaborate with designers and back-end engineers.

The Engineering Leader will oversee the architecture and reliability of AI improvement products, focusing on backend systems, scalability, and technical leadership.

The Senior Backend Software Engineer will design and scale backend systems using Python and FastAPI, collaborate with researchers, optimize infrastructure, and implement testing and monitoring systems.

Develop scalable web applications using React and Next.js, implement backend solutions in Python, maintain DevOps practices, and collaborate with AI/ML teams to deploy applications.

As an Embedded Perception Engineer, you'll develop perception pipelines for autonomous systems, focusing on vision model development, sensor fusion, and optimization on embedded hardware.

The Senior Backend Engineer develops core product features in ETL and GraphQL, designs APIs, builds ETL pipelines, and collaborates with frontend teams.

The Senior MLOps Engineer will deploy scalable ML services, optimize resources, manage cloud storage, integrate advanced ML techniques, and set up monitoring solutions, while also automating CI/CD pipelines and workflows.

The Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers, improve processes, collaborate with product managers, and define staffing strategies.

The Staff Engineer will lead the Systems team, design scalable cloud infrastructure, optimize data pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and security.

As a Full Stack Engineer, you will develop backend APIs using Django and integrate front-end components in React, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver optimized product features.

As a Backend Engineer, you will design and optimize backend services, collaborate with other teams, maintain APIs, and improve system performance.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer at Cinch, you'll lead the modernization and performance optimization of React-based user interfaces, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and architect scalable UI systems with a focus on AI-driven experiences.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll build and manage observability platforms for satellite communications, define SLOs/SLIs, and collaborate on incident response and deployment automation.

The Software Architect will design and implement intelligent document processing and agentic evaluation frameworks, leading architectural direction and coding in Python and Scala/Java.

The Senior Full Stack Developer will design, develop, test, and debug software solutions, collaborating with teams and optimizing applications. Responsibilities include user interaction design, back-end functionality, and ensuring software scalability and security.

The Backend Software Engineer will develop and maintain backend systems for data processing related to coffee farming, utilizing Python and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include feature development, problem-solving, and adapting systems to regulatory changes while ensuring system resilience.

Develop and enhance software solutions for mineral exploration, collaborating with geologists and data scientists, and driving insights from data systems.

Build and maintain resilient backend systems, participate across the product development lifecycle, collaborate with product and design, raise engineering standards, think through system lifecycles and failure modes, and contribute broadly at an early-stage fintech. Work primarily with backend technologies (Go preferred) and cloud/datastore tools.

Lead and scale Sully.ai's multi-cloud platform by owning provisioning, reliability, and automated deployments. Implement GitOps and IaC, standardize developer tooling and CI/CD, optimize scalability and costs for AI workloads, and deliver measurable platform and engineering efficiency improvements.