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From architecting and amplifying the reach of a private, global, multi-cloud IP network, to bringing hyperlocal edgetechnology right to your fingertips through intuitive APIs, we're shaping a new era of seamless interconnection between people, devices, and applications.\nWe're driven by a desire to transform and modernize what's antiquated, automate the manual, and solve real-world problems through innovative connectivity solutions. As a testament to our success, we're proud to stand as a financially stable and profitable company. Our robust profitability allows us not only to invest in pioneering technologies but also to foster an environment of continuous learning and growth for our team.\nOur collective vision is a world where borderless connectivity fuels limitless innovation. By joining us, you can be part of laying the foundations for this interconnected future. We're currently seeking passionate individuals who are excited about the opportunity to contribute to an industry-shaping company while growing their own skills and careers.\nThe Role\nWe're looking for a senior engineer who lives at the seam between software, operations and AI. You've built systems where an order POST doesn't end at a database row - it ends at a carrier activating a real phone number in another country, subject to that country's rules. And increasingly, it ends with an AI agent deciding - reliably, auditable, in milliseconds - whether that order flows straight through or needs a human.\nYou'll join the team that owns Telnyx's phone-number inventory and the entire ordering pipeline behind it. The stack is Python, the domain is global telephony, and the roadmap is near-total automation: if a step in the pipeline is done by a human today, we're building the system that takes that step away.\nWhat You'll Own\n**The ordering pipeline** - async Python services that turn a search-and-order API call into a provisioned, billable phone number: job queues, retries, rollbacks on partial failure, SLA clocks, and backorder (advanced order) fulfillment where lead-time promises have contractual weight. Tens of thousands of orders a week run through this today.\n**Vendor & carrier integrations** - dozens of them, from US Tier-1 wholesale carriers to international carriers and regulated-market vendors. Each integration is its own Snowflake - idiosyncratic APIs, failure modes, and regulatory constraints. You'll make them behave like one system.\n**The AI order-review layer** - a production LLM service that reads orders and customer-submitted regulatory documents and auto-approves by country, number type, and carrier, governed by allowlists, score thresholds, and full audit logs. You'll own expanding its coverage safely: evals, guardrails, regression suites, and clean handoffs to humans when the machine isn't sure.\n**Regulatory automation** - per-country identity/documentation checks (\"requirement groups\"), external document-verification vendors, expiry and re-verification flows - automated end-to-end in 45+ countries we hold carrier licences in.\n**The data layer** - a large Postgres-based warehouse and Metabase analytics serving stock, SLA, and order-lifecycle dashboards used daily by ops and leadership, across a 30+ microservice estate; alerting on stock risk, vendor SLA breaches, and pipeline health.\nTech stack (what you'll actually touch)\nPython 3 (asyncio, FastAPI/aiohttp, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, pydantic), pytest, mypy/ruff\nLLM tooling: model APIs, structured output, agent orchestration, prompt/scoring configuration, offline eval harnesses\nPostgreSQL at scale: schema design, migrations on live systems, query tuning, warehouse SQL\nRabbitMQ/Kafka, Consul, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker/OCI, GitHub Actions\nMetabase, and TypeScript/Next.js for internal dashboards (not required - the backend is yours)\nWhat we're looking for\n5+ years of backend engineering, with strong production async Python.\nYou've owned systems that talk to many external services and lived with the async-job, retry, rollback, and eventual-consistency problems that creates.\nYou can make an LLM trustworthy in a real flow: validation, scoring thresholds, evals, audit, and human-in-the-escalation. 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