Senior ML Platform Backend Engineer

Company: Nightfall
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: October 7, 2024

Job Description:

We are looking for an exceptional engineering technical leader to join our growing team at Nightfall. As a senior, hands-on, technical engineer in the Engineering organization, you will drive execution, provide solid technical expertise, raise the engineering bar of the team, contribute towards shaping the long-term architecture of the platform and have opportunity for technical leadership.
This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office.
Responsibilities

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• Drive great execution, work with the team to set clear goals, and deliver against them
  
• Hands-on, technical design and coding
  
• Help shape the long-term architecture of the platform keeping scalability and reliability into account
  
• Help to recruit, inspire a high performing and creative engineering team
  
• Implement best of practices in a fast-paced engineering environment
  
• Champion engineering excellence and culture, establish metrics for regular improvement
  
• Participating in the team's oncall rotation and help drive operational excellence
  
  Requirements
  
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  • Minimum 5+ years of hands-on technical development experience
    
  • Minimum 3+ years of experience mentoring and leading engineering teams
    
  • Experience programming in Python, Go, Java, C++ or related language
    
  • Experience designing and building low latency and high throughput systems based on highly scalable microservices-based architectures
    
  • A foundational understanding of multi-threaded programming, concurrency primitives, and data structures using Python, Go or other frameworks
    
  • Expertise in deploying machine models for inferencing in real-time production environments using a variety of Deep Learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TorchScript or Tensorflow, and the ability to solve complex, cross-language, performance and scalability issues associated with them.
    
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
    
    Bonus Points
    
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    • Experience working in high growth venture-backed startups
      
    • Blog, teach, mentor, or help others learn outside of your day to day responsibilities
      
    • Experience training and deploying NLP based machine models or LLMs is a big plus.
      
    • Familiarity with AWS and managed infrastructure
      
    • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, Redis, KV-stores
      
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