Senior Staff Software Engineer

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Posted 2mo ago

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12+ years in backend or platform engineering
Substantial experience building production ML systems or data-intensive infrastructure
Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Scala, and/or Python
Deep understanding of ML systems design: feature stores, training/serving consistency, model versioning, online/offline inference pipelines
Experience with high-scale batch and real-time data pipelines (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or equivalent)
Experience with point-in-time correctness for backfills
Expertise with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
Experience with well-designed APIs, efficient data contracts, multi-tenant serving infrastructure
Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives spanning ML and platform engineering

Production experience with Chronon, Tecton, Feast, or equivalent
Experience with online/offline consistency and backfill automation
Experience with model schema management, multi-version support, and model composition frameworks
Track record defining and enforcing technical contracts between ML modeling, MLI, serving teams and/or product surfaces
Measurable impact improving the speed at which ML teams evaluate candidate models and ship to production

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