Backend Software Engineer

CNN

full-time

Posted on: 9/7/2025

Location: Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States

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Mid-LevelSenior

AWSChefCloudGraphiteMicroservicesOpen SourcePerlPHPPostgresPythonRabbitMQRedisShell ScriptingUnix

About the role

Design and develop web based services that support our product, customers, and third party developers
Contribute to the evolution of open source components within our technology stack
Contribute to legacy code bases using Perl and PHP
Develop, advance, and maintain our current suite of APIs and microservices
Integrate new tools into our processes and suggest new ways of improving systems
Provide, on an engineering-wide rotational basis, 24x7 coverage for the production application environment
Maintain web-based applications running on a Unix-based open source platform, using virtualization and AWS

3+ years experience delivering code & projects in a production environment
Expertise in Python and related tool chains (pip, distribute, fabric, virtualenv)
Experience working with other scripting languages, preferably Perl and/or PHP
Experience with UNIX development tools (make, shell scripting)
Experience developing and deploying to AWS or other cloud-based infrastructure services
Familiarity with Test Driven Development (TDD) concepts, experience a plus
Assertive, with excellent communication skills
Mid-level engineer (able to work independently and take on bigger challenges)