Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to join our Machine Learning Platform team. The team builds the foundational components for feature engineering and training/serving ML models at Coinbase. Our platform is used to combat fraud, personalize user experiences, and to analyze blockchains. You will get the opportunity to apply your engineering skills across all aspects of building ML at scale: stream processing, distributed training, and highly available online services.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Form a deep understanding of our Machine Learning Engineers’ needs and our current capabilities and gaps.
• Mentor our talented junior engineers on how to build high quality software, and take their skills to the next level.
• Continually raise our engineering standards to maintain high-availability and low-latency for our ML inference infrastructure that runs both predictive ML models and LLMs.
• Optimize low latency streaming pipelines to give our ML models the freshest and highest quality data.
• Evangelize state-of-the-art practices on building high-performance distributed training jobs that process large volumes of data.
• Build tooling to observe the quality of data going into our models and to detect degradations impacting model performance.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

• 5+ yrs of industry experience as a Software Engineer.
• You have a strong understanding of distributed systems.
• You lead by example through high quality code and excellent communication skills.
• You have a great sense of design, and can bring clarity to complex technical requirements.
• You treat other engineers as a customer, and have an obsessive focus on delivering them a seamless experience.
• You have a mastery of the fundamentals, such that you can quickly jump between many varied technologies and still operate at a high level.

Nice to haves:

• Experience building ML models and working with ML systems.
• Experience working on a platform team, and building developer tooling.
• Experience with the technologies we use (Python, Golang, Ray, Tecton, Spark, Airflow, Databricks, Snowflake, and DynamoDB).