Python Workflows Developer

Overview: Apex is seeking a motivated and talented senior software developer with significant experience in Python development. The contractor will join the Parsl parallel programming library and funcX function-as-a-service teams and work to develop new features in these and related frameworks, work with external collaborators to develop shared components, and work with users to apply these frameworks to various scientific use cases. They will contribute to a multi-institution codebase written in Python that aims to provide a modern asynchronous Python interface to different HPC schedulers.

Work Location: Due to COVID-19 this position will be work-from-home (WFH).

Required skills and technologies

• Production Python development experience
• Experience working on large code base with collaborators
• Python parallel and asynchronous frameworks experience
• High performance computing experience (e.g., batch schedulers, MPI)
• Experience with workflows: software development, stacks, solve/runs, schedulers and integrations.
• Source code control, particularly Git experience: issue tracking, labeling, reporting, prioritization, merging, diffing
• Testing: Unit tests and larger-scale functional tests embedded in a CI environment

Interpersonal skills

• Small and remote team experience, taking guidance from a larger group of stakeholders and implementing changes within a group of developers and collaborators
• Ability to communicate openly and often with teammates and remain open to new ideas

Desirable skills and background

• Experience with scientific applications
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Amazon Web Services)
• Knowledge of cloud and web services devops processes
• CI/CD workflows: GitHub, Gitlab, pipeline/control scripts
• Experience with containers (e.g., Docker, Singularity)
• Experience contributing to open-source code bases

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