Senior Machine Learning Ops Engineer, Nextdoor

• Bring a deep empathy for customer needs and insights as well as an intuitive grasp of the business problems we’re trying to solve
• Extensive experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Go, Java, or Scala
• Experience in designing, building, and debugging distributed systems
• Proven engineering skills. Experience of writing and maintaining high-quality production code
• A strong ability to partner with other data engineers throughout the company, and consult, design, and review their projects
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to succeed in a dynamic startup environment

Desirable

• You will be part of a scrappy and impactful team building data-intensive products, working with data and features
• You will help build the foundational Machine Learning (ML) infrastructure that ML engineers will use for years to come as we ramp up our effort to introduce machine learning into our platform
• You should be comfortable with petabytes of data, writing crisp design documentation, and building, debugging, and maintaining highly available distributed systems
• The Machine Learning platform that you build will empower developers throughout Nextdoor to build better ML products more quickly than ever before
• You will design, implement and integrate the next generation of Machine Learning infrastructure to empower our Data Scientists and Machine Learning engineers to build machine learning (ML) models that make real-time decisions for the Nextdoor platform
• You will collaborate with other engineers and data scientists to create optimal experiences on the Core ML platform, including but not limited to: the featurestore, the real-time serving layer and the offline training system