Company Background

Our client is a global leader in access solutions and smart home technologies. With over a decade of innovation in the IoT space, the company is a pioneer in connected home solutions, including garage door openers, gate systems, and smart access management tools. One of their flagship innovations is the platform, which allows users to control and monitor their home access systems through connected devices. The current focus is a mobile app designed to support and manage gated communities.

Project Description

AI platform is a modern, cloud-native, and device-integrated system supporting advanced computer vision, generative AI, and smart automation for access control and security. The platform is continuously evolving, with a strong focus on validation, automation, and scalability to support millions of IoT devices and next-generation smart home features.

Technologies

• Python
• FastAPI
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• LLM / Generative AI
• vLLM
• Kafka / RabbitMQ

What You'll Do

• Design and implement a rules engine platform as part of the AI microservices ecosystem;
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to integrate business logic and rule-based decisioning into the platform;
• Develop robust, maintainable, and scalable Python microservices;
• Ensure high code quality, test coverage, and adherence to best practices (PEP 8, code reviews, CI/CD);
• Work with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) for deployment.

Job Requirements

• 4+ years of experience with Python;
• Experience building rules engines or similar business logic platforms;
• Experience with FastAPI or similar frameworks;
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines;
• Experience working with AWS (EKS, SQS, S3, EC2, MSK);
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and clean code practices;
• Basic experience with LLMs and tools like vLLM;
• Strong communication skills;
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher;

Nice to Have:

• Background in AI/ML platforms or agent frameworks;
• Familiarity with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka);
• Understanding of concurrent programming;
• Exposure to Amazon Bedrock;
• Familiarity with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, DataDog);

What Do We Offer

The global benefits package includes:

• Technical and non-technical training for professional and personal growth;
• Internal conferences and meetups to learn from industry experts;
• Support and mentorship from an experienced employee to help you professional grow and development;
• Health insurance;
• English courses;
• Sports activities to promote a healthy lifestyle;
• Flexible work options, including remote and hybrid opportunities;
• Referral program for bringing in new talent;
• Work anniversary program and additional vacation days.

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Why You'll Love This Role: 

We're looking for an experienced ML Ops Engineer to join the ML/AI team at Newsela. This team works on projects ranging from classical Machine Learning to AI / Generative pipelines.  This is a hands-on role. You'll work closely with ML/AI, data and site reliability engineers to take models from prototype to production, build robust data pipelines, and keep our services running smoothly as we continue to scale.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML model training, packaging, and deployment across our microservices.
• Manage containerized services on AWS ECS, optimizing for cost, latency, and availability.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and service configuration with Terraform.
• Work to maintain and scale services that make use of third party LLM providers.
• Build and improve data pipelines that feed models from BigQuery, S3, and DynamoDB into training and inference workflows.
• Instrument services with observability tooling (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Langfuse) and establish SLOs for model-serving endpoints.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize new models using BentoML, FastAPI, and container-based serving.

About You:

• 2-3 years in ML Ops supporting ML/AI features, systems and workflows with 3-4 years prior experience in DevOps, CloudOps or SRE.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Hands-on experience with Docker containerization and container orchestration.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD for ML workflows in an enterprise production environment.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms — specifically AWS (ECS, ECR, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch) and GCP (BigQuery, Vertex AI).
• Experience with LLM integration and observability (OpenAI API, Google GenAI, Langfuse tracing).
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines for ML training and feature engineering
• Familiarity with ML modeling workflows — training, evaluation, experiment tracking (e.g. MLFlow, Weights & Biases), and model versioning
• Experience monitoring and flagging model drift over time.
• Exposure to NLP/NLU models and frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, or sentence-transformers
• Knowledge of vector databases (LanceDB, FAISS) and embedding-based retrieval systems
• Experience with scaling and maintaining deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) in production settings
• Familiarity with classical ML libraries (scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM) and model explainability tools (SHAP)
• Working knowledge of ML serving frameworks such as BentoML or similar.
• Comfort working with FastAPI or similar async Python web frameworks.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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Rumble Cloud is seeking a Principal Software Architect (Python) to own the design and hands-on implementation of our Self-Service Cloud Portal and Cloud Console, the primary interfaces customers use to manage their cloud environments. Our stack is built on OpenStack and Ceph, with a customer surface that includes a self-service portal, an enhanced open-source cloud console, and integrated CRM/ERP-based billing and account management.

This role combines architectural leadership with significant day-to-day coding. You will define the architectural roadmap, guide the team in building scalable, maintainable services, and personally deliver high-quality Python code. Partnering with backend, Golang, and React/TypeScript teams, you will ensure cohesive design, strong performance, and an excellent developer and customer experience, while helping prioritize work and mentoring engineers without direct people management responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities
Architecture and Technical Vision

• Define, document, and communicate architectural patterns, standards, and best practices for backend services, microservice integration, and portal-wide interoperability.
• Evaluate the current codebase (including CRM/billing integration and cloud console frontend) and chart a practical path toward a scalable, maintainable architecture.
• Design architectures that support multi-tenant SaaS scale, observability, reliability, and future extensibility.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, service specifications, and operational design records for cross-functional transparency.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to align service design with Rumble Cloud OpenStack/Kubernetes-based runtime environment.

Hands-On Development
• Contribute clean, efficient Python code (e.g., FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Jinja2) for key backend components; this role requires sustained coding, not occasional guidance.
• Build and extend backend functionality that interfaces with RESTful APIs and SQL databases.
• Partner with Golang service teams and frontend developers (React/TypeScript) for seamless integration across the product ecosystem.
• Analyze product requirements and implement new features end-to-end, proactively identifying and addressing potential issues.

Planning, Prioritization, and Delivery
• Translate product-level requirements and customer needs into actionable roadmaps, epics, and tickets.
• Help prioritize features and technical debt based on impact, dependencies, and realistic timelines.
• Drive continuous improvement in the delivery lifecycle, including code review practices, release automation, and GitHub/GitHub Actions workflows.
• Help design and implement an SDLC and SSDLC with repeatable processes for planning, development, testing, deployment, and security review.
• Identify risks and blockers early and work with stakeholders to resolve them before they affect delivery.

Mentorship and Team Guidance
• Guide senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pair programming, and technical planning.
• Document designs and mentor engineers to grow their architectural thinking and engineering skills.
• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other teams and departments on integrating new functionalities and services.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications
• Expert-level Python development experience, including SQLAlchemy, Jinja2, and modern API frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Flask, Gunicorn).
• Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and resource servers, including working with incomplete or minimal SDK documentation.
• Experience designing and implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
• Strong understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL), ORM patterns, and schema design.
• Demonstrated experience architecting distributed systems or service-oriented architectures at production scale.
• Proficiency with object-oriented and functional programming concepts.
• Proficiency with containerized development (Docker) and cloud-native deployment environments (Kubernetes).
• Hands-on familiarity with Git-based workflows, including GitHub, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to synthesize product-level requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and system designs.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills, with a track record of guiding engineering teams toward delivery excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to act as a hands-on technical leader while maintaining architectural oversight across multiple services and teams.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills across complex, distributed systems.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term architectural goals.
• Willingness to learn, be challenged, and contribute in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with a passion for cloud-native development and open-source tooling.

Preferred Qualifications
• Strong Go (Golang) programming experience, with the ability to contribute to and review Go-based services.
• Familiarity with OpenStack APIs, services, or the broader OpenStack ecosystem.
• Familiarity with Ceph or other distributed storage systems.
• Experience with the Odoo ERP/CRM platform, including module development, customization, or integration into SaaS products.
• Background working with or extending open-source cloud console or dashboard projects.
• General familiarity with public cloud concepts (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).
• Experience building SaaS in a multi-tenant environment, including tenant isolation, usage metering, and self-service provisioning.
• Experience with OpenStack or Kubernetes API development, control panel design/architecture, and test-driven development with Pytest.
• Experience working within public cloud / IaaS products
• Intermediate experience or higher in 1 or more programming languages (ie: Go, C, C++, Python, Rust)
• Experience working with Rocky or Ubuntu in live environments.
• Experience working with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL 

Annual Compensation Range: 

$150,000 - $186,000 CAD base + benefits + equity (If based in Canada)

$160,000 - $195,000 USD base + benefits + equity (If based in the United States)

Note: The salary range listed for this position is a good faith estimate based on experience, qualifications, and internal compensation structure. The actual salary offered varies depending on the candidate's skill level and experience.

This posting refers to an active vacancy within the organization.