Staff Software Engineer, Quora

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• Experience with building and owning end-to-end machine learning or data science-related systems
• 5+ years of industry experience in Machine Learning, Infrastructure or related fields
• 5+ years of experience writing production code in Python, C++, or similar language
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field

Desirable

• Machine Learning plays an important role in helping Quora further its mission of growing and sharing the world's knowledge
• We have 100+ Machine Learning models in production powering various product features
• We use a variety of algorithms — everything from linear models to decision trees and deep neural networks
• Our production models operate at a huge scale and help over a hundred million people using Quora every month
• We want to empower all ML engineers at Quora to be as impactful as they can be in solving different ML problems at scale
• To that end, we are looking for engineers to help us build our company-wide ML development platform
• In this role, you will be the part of a small team solving very interesting technical problems at the intersection of exciting domains like Machine Learning, Distributed Systems and High Performance Computing
• Your work will have an enormous impact on Quora's long-term success
• Architect, build and maintain large scale distributed systems to support the ML development workflow, from data collection and training to deployment and realtime serving
• Develop services on top of open source technologies like Kubernetes, Tensorflow, and PyTorch
• Own business-critical infrastructure, help resolve production issues, and participate in the team-wide oncall rotation
• Collaborate with ML engineers who use the platform, and help them be more impactful