Software Engineer, ML Infra

NewsBreak · Mountain View, California, United States · 5 months ago

Employment: Full time
Category: Software engineering
Experience: 3+ years
Visa sponsorship: Yes
Company size: 501-1000
Salary: USD 180,000 – 225,000 / year

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About the role:

We’re hiring a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to help build the backbone that trains, serves, and monitors the models behind our Ads and Recommendations products. You’ll join a small, high-ownership team that ships platform improvements end-to-end—partnering with product and data teams, reducing latency and cost, and shortening the path from an idea to a safely launched model.

You’ll work across the ML lifecycle: making training faster and more reliable, improving model serving performance, and strengthening our feature/embedding platform so models stay fresh and consistent between offline and online use. We’re looking for someone who can take real ownership, finish what’s started, and raise the bar on stability and developer experience.

Why this role

Scope & impact: small team, big surface area—your work lands directly in production.

Ownership: from design to rollout to post-launch learnings; real autonomy with support.

Growth: visibility across the stack and a clear path to lead projects and mentor others.

Pragmatic culture: we optimize for outcomes over buzzwords, and we value clear thinking, and follow-through.

If you like building reliable systems that make ML teams move faster—and you enjoy turning complexity into simple, durable solutions—we’d love to talk.

Responsibilities

Design and develop machine learning infrastructure.

Own and enhance core components of the ML infrastructure, including systems for offline and online model training, model pipeline health monitoring, model serving, feature authoring, and feature serving.

Proactively address ML infrastructure issues that may impact production.

Collaborate with ML engineers to build robust model pipelines utilizing the ML infrastructure.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree in a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or MS/PhD in a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience

Experience delivering production systems that support ML use cases (training or serving).

Proven track record in building and maintaining large-scale distributed backend systems

Proficient in Python, with a strong understanding of object-oriented languages such as C++ or Java

Strong problem solving skills with good teamwork and communication skills

Benefits

We offer competitive benefits package:

Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
Paid time off and paid holidays
Paid parental leave
FSA and commuter benefits programs
Team activity budget

The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.

Annual Base Pay Range

$180,000—$225,000 USD

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