Backend Python Engineer (OSI-SIS-TS-2026-128-GRAP)

Job Description

You will join the Tools and Services section within the Scientific Information Service, the team responsible for the platforms that power scientific discovery and open access across the High Energy Physics community. Our systems include INSPIRE, the global literature hub for particle physics; SCOAP3, which funds and tracks open access publishing; CERN Analysis Preservation, which safeguards the analyses behind physics results; and a tool facilitating access to CERN's institutional memory.

As a Backend Python Engineer you will design, build and operate the services that ingest, curate, search and expose millions of scientific records to a worldwide audience. You will work on high‑throughput data pipelines, REST APIs, search infrastructure and the integration of AI‑driven retrieval into production systems. Your code will be open source and used daily by researchers across hundreds of institutes.

As part of the Tools and Services team, you w...