Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning Platform, Quora (Remote)

Requirements:

• Availability 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
• Experience instrumenting ML workloads for performance monitoring/efficiency
• Experience with high performance, large-scaled distributed systems
• 4+ years of industry experience in Machine Learning, Infrastructure or related fields
• 4+ years of experience writing production code in Python, C++, or similar language
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field

Preferred Requirements:

• Strong communication and inter-personal skills, experience working with ML teams is a plus
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or other forms of containerized infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with AWS technologies like EC2, EBS, S3, EKS

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain the core infrastructure that powers Quora's machine learning platform, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance
• Build scalable and reliable distributed systems for serving machine learning models
• Optimize infrastructure performance across the ML platform, identifying and resolving bottlenecks
• Collaborate with ML engineers to provide solutions for building and deploying models efficiently
• Contribute to the design and implementation of next-generation ML infrastructure
• Develop services on top of open source technologies like Kubernetes, Tensorflow, and PyTorch
• Own business-critical infrastructure, participate in the on-call rotation, and resolve production issues
• Collaborate with ML engineers to enhance their impact

Perks and Benefits:

• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Equity refreshers
• Remote work reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance programs
• Salary range varies by location and experience