Senior Backend Developer for Real-Time Data Platforms

WebCreek is looking for a Senior Python Developer to help build high-performance backend systems for real-time data platforms, streaming pipelines, distributed systems, and time-series analytics in demanding industrial environments.

You will work with modern technologies including Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and time-series databases to build scalable systems capable of processing high-volume telemetry and operational data in real time.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex scalability, streaming, observability, and distributed systems challenges.

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services for ingesting and processing large-scale time-series data.
• Design and build distributed backend services and APIs for real-time ingestion, querying, and analytics of high-volume telemetry data.
• Build scalable streaming and ETL/ELT pipelines for real-time data processing workloads.
• Optimize query performance, indexing strategies, partitioning, and storage architectures for time-series workloads.
• Design systems capable of handling high-ingestion, high-cardinality workloads and millions of data points per second.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, platform teams, and operational stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Contribute to observability, monitoring, alerting, uptime, and platform reliability initiatives.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across distributed systems and cloud-native environments.

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• Ensure code quality, scalability, maintainability, and operational reliability in production systems.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of experience developing backend, data-intensive, or distributed systems in production environments.
• Strong proficiency with developing production systems in Python.
• Strong SQL skills and experience writing and optimizing complex time-windowed queries.
• Experience with time-series query languages such as PromQL, Flux, MetricQL, or advanced SQL window functions.
• Hands-on experience working with at least one major time-series database such as InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Prometheus, OpenTSDB, or VictoriaMetrics.
• Experience designing and building REST or gRPC APIs.
• Experience building real-time ingestion or streaming pipelines using Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of time-series data modeling, retention policies, aggregation, compression, and downsampling strategies.
• Experience handling high-ingestion, high-cardinality workloads.
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems and tuning performance for large-scale workloads.

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• Understanding of storage architecture concepts including partitioning, tiered storage, and hot/cold data separation strategies.
• Strong experience deploying and operating distributed services using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing observability, alerting, uptime monitoring, and reliability practices for distributed platforms.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident-response mindset with experience debugging production systems.
• Ability to translate operational and business requirements into scalable technical solutions and platform SLAs.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves):

• Experience working in Oil & Gas, Energy, Industrial Automation, or other operational technology (OT) environments.
• Experience working with SCADA systems such as Ignition, Wonderware, WinCC, or CygNet.Familiarity with industrial communication protocols such as MQTT, OPC, Modbus, or telemetry-based systems.
• Experience working with real-time telemetry, IoT, or industrial data platforms.
• Experience working with telemetry, sensor, operational, or machine-generated data at scale.

What You'll Gain:

• Full-time position in a quickly growing company.
• Competitive salary with regular revisions.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays.
• In-house IT training and certifications through WebCreek University.
• Flexible work environment within a diverse, international team.
• Wellness programs and exclusive "workcation" opportunities for top performers.

Location: On-site in Houston, TX. (Relocation candidates are encouraged to apply)

WebCreek is an equal opportunity employer. We believe our strength comes from our people and we welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, color, gender, age, or disability. If you have the skills and the passion for tech, we want you on our team. Apply today and evolve your career with a global leader.

For more information, please visit: https://www.webcreek.com/