Staff Python Engineer

Job Title: Software Engineer(Full Stack Python)
Location: Dallas, TX (Locals only)
Duration: Long Term

Candidate need to attend the in-person interview at client location. Only local candidates.

Job description: As a Software Engineer on the Agentic System Layer (ASL) team, you will build and maintain the core platform components that power American Airlines' agentic AI systems. Day-to-day responsibilities include: developing and maintaining agent orchestration services, tool registries, and execution runtimes; building APIs and microservices for LLM integration, prompt management, and agent lifecycle management; implementing observability, logging, and monitoring for agentic workflows; writing comprehensive tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) for platform reliability; collaborating with architects on design decisions and with ML engineers on model integration; participating in on-call rotations for production support of the AI platform; contributing to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation.

Top 3 Mandatory Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python, plus working knowledge of at least one of Java, Go, or TypeScript
• Hands-on experience building production REST/gRPC APIs and microservices
• Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure preferred), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi)
• Working experience with LLM integration patterns, prompt engineering, or AI/ML application development; familiarity with frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or similar orchestration tools

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, EventBridge), vector databases, observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry), agent evaluation frameworks, FastAPI/Flask, async Python, Redis/caching patterns, airline or travel industry experience

For applications and inquiries, contact: [email protected]