Senior Python Engineer

About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.
 

Apply today to help us achieve our mission.

Summary:

This position is on the Business Analysis, KPI and alerting team, a key area on the Delinea platform. This team loves data and wants to consume it, model it, aggregate, and operate on it at all levels to provide powerful insights for our users. You’ll help build out and integrate across a complex microservice ecosystem to provide cohesive data analysis, alerting, and other business intelligence solutions for the entire Delinea platform.

This position plays a key role in strengthening Delinea’s identity and access management ecosystem through high-quality engineering practices and innovation. We want to learn, solve complex problems, and work together as a strong team. You will report to the team’s engineering manager.

The role is hybrid in Mexico City (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) in our offices in Reforma.

What You’ll Do:

• Architect, design, and help develop, test and maintain secure microservices, data aggregations, data models, alerting, and analytics

• Familiarity with data warehouse / analytics architecture patterns

• Leverage the appropriate data store including document (Cosmos DB), relational (Azure SQL), graph (Janus, ArangoDB), big data (Azure Data Explorer), and more

• Use the appropriate technology including Python, Go, C#, Terraform, Queueing systems, REST API

• Orchestrate complex data flows both near time and post aggregation

• Optimize data flow processes from SQL tuning to better map/reduce strategies to queue processing to any part of the flow

• Able to understand diagnostics, observability, logging, telemetry, and other tuning tools to truly understand how the system is working and if it is healthy

• Ensure data integrity, availability, and security within microservice communication and storage layers.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for consistent provisioning and lifecycle management of Azure resources.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure, automated deployments using Azure DevOps.

• Collaborate with architects, product managers, and DevOps teams to define system roadmaps, ensuring compliance with security and privacy requirements.

• Conduct code and design reviews, emphasizing performance, security, and maintainability.

• Provide technical mentorship to engineering peers and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Drive innovation in AI-assisted automation, context-aware security, and data-driven decisioning across Delinea’s platforms.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.

• 5+ years of backend development experience in Python

• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS)

• Familiarity with microservices and container orchestration (Kubernetes)

• Proficiency in designing, developing, and maintaining relational and NoSQL databases, including Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

• Strong understanding of data modeling, query optimization, and transactional consistency within distributed environments.

• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for Azure Cloud.

• Practical experience integrating AI/ML systems using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar AI frameworks.

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.

• Deep understanding of cloud security principles, identity management, and privileged access control.

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

We’d Love to See:

• Experience with database performance tuning, replication, and high-availability configurations.

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, service meshes, and API gateways

• Knowledge of observability frameworks (Datadog, Grafana) for monitoring and diagnostics.

• Understanding of Zero Trust architectures and secure software lifecycle practices.

• Prior experience in AI-enhanced security, automated policy enforcement, or data compliance management.

• Proven success in Agile software development and continuous delivery environments.

Why work at Delinea?

• We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

• We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.

• What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do

• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments

• Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team

• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through

• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.