Machine Learning Engineer, Nextdoor
Infrastructure
$205-336k
Private social network for neighbours
Open for applications
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$205-336k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Nextdoor’s mission is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.
Role
Who you are
- Master / Ph.D. in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, Engineering or a related field
- 3+ years of industry experience of applying machine learning at scale
- 3+ years of experience in building performant and scalable backend services
- Experience with Python, Kubernetes, Go, Kafka, Docker, Spark, SQL, AWS and the Unix environment
- Experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks like Xgboost, Sklearn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
Our take
Nextdoor is a private social network that aims to encourage social interaction between neighbours and make people aware of crime in their area.
The social network has had huge success in the United States and has expanded internationally, with Nextdoor now present in more than 242,000 neighbourhoods around the world.
The company's main competition comes from local Facebook groups, which have become less and less popular due to their comparative lack of functionality. Nextdoor's laser focus on building for neighborhoods has helped them to build a better product, and their advertising partnership with Oracle, launched in 2022, will help bring more transparency to Nextdoor's sponsorships.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$130.3m
Dec 2017
$79.5m
Total funding: $209.8m
Company benefits
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 12 weeks of parental, family or medical leave
- Global end of year shutdown
- Learning and development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Prakash Janakiraman
(Advisor & Co-founder)Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley before working in engineering roles at Google and as the co-founder of Fanbase.com
David Weisen
(Engineer & Co-founder)Worked as a software engineer at Google, Fanbase.com and Open Harbour after graduating from Stanford with a degree in Computer Science
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 39 more jobs at Nextdoor