Senior Backend Developer (ML Platform)
Senior Backend Developer (ML Platform)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Permanent
Job Description
As Senior Backend Developer, your technical skills will be leveraged to drive the development and deployment of high quality, scalable AI solutions. This is an opportunity to work end-to-end on a large-scale machine-learning system that touches millions of customers, and a chance to continuously learn and help improve our solution as the field evolves. This role requires previous experience building distributed systems at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Develop scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant services powering our Machine Learning platform according to industry standards for performance, monitoring, orchestration, and testing.
- Design, deploy, and maintain Machine Learning services such as a feature store, experimentation platform, model endpoint management/blue-green deployment, vector databases, etc.
- Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to empathetically understand and define requirements for complex systems, and develop complex projects from conception into rigorous technical specifications with a clear path to production.
- Minimize risk across platform/system deployments, features, and processes.
- Foster close collaboration with AI research teams to ensure that their innovations are effectively integrated into the product development process.
- Build systems that deliver measurable and tangible business value.
Must Have Skills:
Requirements:
- 4+ years software engineering experience
- Experience architecting, building, and maintaining production distributed systems at scale
- Exemplary software engineering skills (design, unit testing, git, code review, CI/CD)
- Advanced experience with Python
- Experience with large-scale data processing frameworks (we use SQL, PySpark, Kafka)
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (we use Google Cloud Platform (GCP))
- Experience with modern cloud technologies (we use Kubernetes, Terraform, etc)
- Experience implementing performant microservices (we use gRPC)
- Proficient in database management, including designing database schema, crafting efficient queries, performing basic DBA tasks, and knowledgeable regarding common databases relevant to Python development