Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (ML Platform)

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Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Strong experience leading multiple engineering teams to deliver high quality software
• Track record of successfully leading engineering teams at both rapidly scaling startups and complex larger technology companies.
• Expertise in synthesizing complex technical requirements, designs, trade-offs, and capabilities into clear decisions to influence ML & engineering direction
• Extensive experience developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and operating online, real-time ML infrastructure including a model server and a feature store
• Experience developing an offline environment for large scale data analysis and model training using technologies including Spark, Kubeflow, Ray, and Airflow
• Experience delivering major features and system components

Responsibilities:

• Set the multi-year, multi-team technical strategy for ML Platform and deliver it through direct implementation or broad technical leadership
• Partner with technical leaders across the company to create joint roadmaps that will achieve business impacting goals through the advancement of machine learning
• Act as a force-multiplier for your teams through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes
• You have an ownership mindset, and you will proactively champion investments in availability so that every project in your area achieves its availability targets
• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting system design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example