Senior Software Engineer, BuzzFeed

ML & AI

$154-170k

+ Equity

SQL

AWS

GCP

Python

Sentry

BigQuery

Datadog

Junior and Mid level

Los Angeles

New York

Remote from US

More information about location

Corss-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content

Job no longer available

Corss-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content

1001+ employees

B2CPublishingContentEntertainmentDigital Media

Job no longer available

$154-170k

+ Equity

SQL

AWS

GCP

Python

Sentry

BigQuery

Datadog

Junior and Mid level

Los Angeles

New York

Remote from US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CPublishingContentEntertainmentDigital Media

Company mission

To spread joy and truth across entertainment, news, food, pop culture, and commerce and drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, and buy now - and into the future.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Strong candidates are excited by recent advancements in generative AI and are eager to use LLMs and image-generation models to build experiences that BuzzFeed readers will love
You have 1 to 3 years of experience using and building web APIs. Machine Learning experience is a plus, but not required
You are a skilled and empathetic engineer who enjoys contributing to and leading technical projects and working with engineers at all levels
You adapt quickly to change and love to ship and iterate, building on insights and data
You have experience working with cloud-based resources on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
You are proficient with Python or Go
You are comfortable working in SQL (BigQuery) on data sets
You are an excellent communicator and comfortable working on a remote team

What the job involves

BuzzFeed is hiring an engineer to join the Machine Learning team
BuzzFeed’s Machine Learning team is made up of data scientists and engineers collaborating on the ML models and infrastructure that power BuzzFeed Inc. products. These range from internal tools used by journalists and editors to experiences that millions of readers engage with as they consume our content across websites and apps
You’ll get to collaborate with some of the best in the business, working closely with creative teams, and launching innovative content capabilities powered by LLMs and generative models
You’ll maintain data pipelines to keep content and user embeddings up to date
You’ll use LLM’s to summarize, categorize, and label data
You’ll use RAG to ground LLMs with accurate knowledge
You'll partner closely with Data Science to develop and optimize machine learning models
You’ll work across the org with software engineers, designers, product managers, and data analysts to understand and shape work at all different stages of its lifecycle
You'll build stable, resilient, and high performance software
You'll use a variety of languages and both internal and third party platforms
You’ll test and iterate, always measuring the effectiveness of your work
Our development process:
Internally-maintained, Docker-based development environment
Github-hosted mono-repo, with code reviews and integrated CI/CD deployment
Collaborative, low-ego engineering culture
Monitoring and instrumentation are essential to our work. We use a combination of Datadog, Sentry, and proprietary services
We believe in ownership over the entire engineering cycle - the same engineer architects, build, test, deploy, monitor, and run their services using containers on AWS/GCP
We use BigQuery as our data warehouse, ingesting nearly 2 TB of new data per day

Application process

Resume
Describe a technical project you've worked on from conception to completion. What was the impact? Note: it doesn't need to be ML/AI related
What recent developments in ML/AI are you excited about? What guardrails are important when applying these systems?
This is a remote position on a distributed team. What strategies have you found useful while working remotely with others?

Our take

BuzzFeed is a global digital media company reaching hundreds of millions of readers each month through entertainment, lifestyle, and cultural content. Originally known for pioneering viral internet formats such as quizzed, listicles, and shareable pop-culture stories, BuzzFeed helped define the social-media-driven publishing era and at its peak attracted more than a billion monthly page views.

The company later expanded into journalism with the launch of BuzzFeed News in 2011, which went on to win major accolades including a Pulitzer Prize and multiple industry awards. In 2023, BuzzFeed made the strategic decision to wind down the division as part of a broader restructuring across the digital media industry, instead consolidating its news operations under HuffPost, which the company acquired in 2020 and continues to operate as a profitable newsroom.

Today, BuzzFeed is focused on evolving its publishing model for the next phase of internet media. The company continues to build audiences across platforms like YouTube, podcasts, and social channels, while also investing in new formats, creator partnerships, and AI-powered content tools designed to deepen audience engagement and support long-term growth.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

1% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.6)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Jun 2021

$150m

CONVERTIBLE

Nov 2016

$200m

SERIES G

Total funding: $646.3m

Company HQ

Gramercy Park, New York, NY

Leadership

Jonah Peretti

(Founder & CEO)

Jonah Founded BuzzFeed in 2006 and has served as CEO since. He is also the co-founder of The Huffington Post.

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