Python Backend Engineer

**Python Backend Engineer** **Language: Portuguese \& English** **Position: Full Remote** **Experience: Mid\-Senior** Key Responsibilities * Troubleshoot and resolve delivery issues across environments, including pipeline failures and data inconsistencies. * Maintain and evolve schema\-driven YAML/JSON configurations for distribution and exhibition platforms. * Support operational workflows by updating internal Python automation scripts. * Perform database\-level investigations to validate data integrity and confirm fixes. * Work through PR\-based change management with clear documentation and regression verification. * Collaborate with cross\-functional teams to ensure smooth delivery operations. * Apply observability and log analysis techniques to trace failures and extract actionable insights. * Ensure compliance with schema validation and maintain configuration hygiene. Mandatory Knowledge * YAML/JSON (production\-grade): Safe authoring/refactoring, strict structure, and change hygiene. * Git \+ PR workflow: Clean diffs, review discipline, conflict handling, and controlled promotions. * Observability \& log analysis: Tracing failures across pipeline stages, correlating identifiers, and extracting actionable signals from logs/metrics. * Schema/validation mindset: Interpreting schema/tooling errors and keeping configs compliant. * Python: Debugging and adjusting existing scripts/automation; implementing targeted fixes safely. * Databases (SQL): Querying to investigate production issues, validate data integrity, and confirm outcomes. * Production support fundamentals: Incident triage, root\-cause analysis, mitigations, and regression verification. * Jinja templating: Understanding template\-driven generation and making safe, minimal changes. Optional Knowledge * Media Supply Chain fundamentals: Deliverables, packaging concepts, metadata hierarchies, locale conventions, and downstream dependency impacts. * Advanced mapping/config patterns (conditional/switch/lookup/padding; robust globals/locals usage). * CI/automation improvements (linting/formatting, pre\-validation checks, regression harnesses). * Partner operations context (common rejection patterns, partner\-specific exceptions, operational playbooks). * Communication in incident/PR contexts (concise updates, change summaries, and requirement translation). Preferred Experience * Hands\-on experience in production support for large\-scale delivery platforms. * Strong understanding of schema\-driven configuration management and automation workflows.