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Lead Django Engineer
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This role is for a Lead Django Engineer, remote contract position, paying $150,000-$175,000/hr. Requires extensive Django experience, multi-tenant applications, AWS, Postgres, and security best practices. Preferred experience includes media industry and video processing knowledge. Duration: over 6 months.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
795
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🗓️ - Date
April 28, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Remote
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
United States
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Cloud #TypeScript #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #Data Modeling #Django #Scala #Security #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Compliance #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #JavaScript #RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) #SQS (Simple Queue Service) #Redis #GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
Role description
$150,000-$175,000/hr. Remote, Contract.
Overview
This is a remote, contract role. Applicants must be able to collaborate as part of a team on Pacific time.
Join a B2B startup in the media/entertainment industry space! We're looking for a key member of our team. As Lead Django Engineer, you will work directly with the CTO on our flagship product and be featured in investor decks and presentations. The candidate should be prepared to take ownership of mission-critical architecture and improve scalability while enhancing security.
Required
• Extensive experience with Django
• Experience with multi-tenant applications, django-tenants package preferred
• Supabase
• Postgres: JSONB, schema isolation, query optimization, RDS on AWS
• AWS: Fargate, S3 pre-signed URLs, SQS, CloudWatch, Cloudflare, IAM least-privilege, Wasabi
• Celery and Redis/SQS for asynchronous task queues with job isolation
• Javascript/Typescript
• Ability to architect in a high-performance environment
• Experience in solving Django networking issues
• Knowledge of security best practices
Preferred
• Google Colab
• Startup Experience
• Media industry experience
• Video processing/streaming experience
• ffmpeg
• GDPR/CCPA compliance-aware data modeling
• Trusted Partner Network (TPN)/MPAA knowledge
$150,000-$175,000/hr. Remote, Contract.
Overview
This is a remote, contract role. Applicants must be able to collaborate as part of a team on Pacific time.
Join a B2B startup in the media/entertainment industry space! We're looking for a key member of our team. As Lead Django Engineer, you will work directly with the CTO on our flagship product and be featured in investor decks and presentations. The candidate should be prepared to take ownership of mission-critical architecture and improve scalability while enhancing security.
Required
• Extensive experience with Django
• Experience with multi-tenant applications, django-tenants package preferred
• Supabase
• Postgres: JSONB, schema isolation, query optimization, RDS on AWS
• AWS: Fargate, S3 pre-signed URLs, SQS, CloudWatch, Cloudflare, IAM least-privilege, Wasabi
• Celery and Redis/SQS for asynchronous task queues with job isolation
• Javascript/Typescript
• Ability to architect in a high-performance environment
• Experience in solving Django networking issues
• Knowledge of security best practices
Preferred
• Google Colab
• Startup Experience
• Media industry experience
• Video processing/streaming experience
• ffmpeg
• GDPR/CCPA compliance-aware data modeling
• Trusted Partner Network (TPN)/MPAA knowledge
