Engineer/Senior Engineer - Python Packaging

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Every organization runs on intelligence: years of accumulated knowledge, decisions, and context. As AI takes on more of that work, companies face a choice: rent that intelligence from vendors who keep the data, the context, and the results, or own it.

OpenTeams exists to make ownership possible.

Founded by Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, and built by people with deep roots across the open-source ecosystem, including NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch, and Jupyter, we help enterprises and governments build AI they control, govern, and evolve themselves.

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Engineer/Senior Engineer, Packaging 

Employment Type: Full-Time

Level: Software Engineer 1 to Senior Engineer 1 (based on qualifications)

Location: Remote 

Salary Range: $85,000-$200,000 USD depending on experience

Portfolio Requirement: GitHub/portfolio of relevant work required

About the Role

OpenTeams is hiring a Engineer/Senior Engineer, Packaging to join our team of open-source engineers and consulting professionals. This role will support a key client engagement and requires strong technical packaging expertise combined with the ability to work directly with stakeholders in a client-facing environment and communicate with the wider open source python packaging community

A core part of this position will involve building and packaging Python projects for Conda-based ecosystems, and ensuring cross-platform reliability-especially on Windows. Additionally, ensuring that python packaging systems and tools work smoothly within enterprise software environments.

In this position, you’ll get to

As a Engineer/Senior Engineer, Packaging at OpenTeams, you will:

• Work on open-source and client consulting projects focused on packaging and build systems
• Build and package complex Python projects with compiled dependencies (C/C++, and potentially other languages depending on project needs)
• Support packaging workflows targeting Conda ecosystems
• Troubleshoot and improve build reliability across operating systems, with a strong focus on Windows
• Troubleshoot and improve python packaging tooling within enterprise settings
• Work directly with client stakeholders onsite, translating needs into technical requirements and solutions
• Maintain and extend documentation for packaging workflows and build processes
• Collaborate with open source community, openteams engineers, learn from peers, and contribute to a culture of high-quality delivery
• Drive constructive conversations around tooling, engineering practices, and process improvements
• Review code and provide thoughtful feedback during code reviews
• Communicate openly with upstream sources to report issues and contribute fixes

Position Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong Python engineering experience, including Python packaging
• Experience packaging for PyPI, Conda, or another ecosystem
• Experience working with Windows OS in development/build environments
• Familiarity with compiled build systems and tooling (examples include C/C++, compilers, linkers, Make/CMake/Meson/setuptools, etc.)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including client-facing experience
• GitHub/portfolio demonstrating relevant work (packaging, build tooling, OSS contributions, etc.)

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Contributions to conda-forge
• Familiarity with Conda
• Familiarity with Pixi
• Familiarity with JFrog Artifactory 
• Experience with CI/CD workflows for packaging/build/test automation
• Experience supporting scientific computing, ML/AI, or performance-oriented software

Grow With Us

At OpenTeams, growth isn’t just about the company-it’s about you.

We believe the best careers are built at the edge of your potential. That is where new tools, ideas, and technologies change the world. Here, you’ll work alongside pioneers of AI, solving problems that matter: making AI more transparent, more ethical, and more empowering. As your skills grow, our career framework provides a pathway and recognition of that increased impact.

Opportunities aren’t limited by geography. You’ll collaborate with global experts, contribute to open source projects that power the world’s technology, and stretch your skills daily.  That global perspective and diversity makes our solution more universal and robust.  We are committed to continuing to celebrate diversity on our team.

Supported people are successful people.  We offer 100% employer paid medical premiums for employees and self-managed PTO with a minimum time off requirement, so that our teams are able to do their best work.

We invest  in curiosity, creativity, and ownership. That means you’ll be trusted to boldly innovate, supported to learn fast, and celebrated for successful collaboration.

Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

OpenTeams understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge is crucial to and enriches the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, disabled people, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

We are an equal opportunity employer - all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for recruitment, interviews, employment, training, compensation, promotion, and related activities. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. OpenTeams will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.