Principal Software Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure

Principal Software Engineer – ML Inference Team

Oversee technical strategy and architecture in ML Inference Platform services.

• Design, implement, and scale critical engineering components and services to support ML inference and deployment.
• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services.
• Advocate for and apply best practices in availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.
• Provide technical direction that influences the entire company.

• Excellent programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design.
• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at scale.
• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and technologies and apply them at work.
• Skilled at solving ambiguous problems.
• Strong collaboration and mentorship skills.

• Bachelor’s in a technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, or equivalent years of experience.
• 10+ years of post‑Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 9+ years of post‑grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 6+ years of post‑grad software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain‑expert to a technical organization.
• Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects.
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing large‑scale distributed systems and high‑throughput RPC services.

• Advanced degree in a technical field such as computer science.
• Experience with cross‑platform development.
• Ability to promote product excellence and collaboration, driving a portfolio of concurrent engineering projects, from short‑term critical feature launches to long‑term research initiatives.
• Ability to create a compelling vision for the future, communicate clearly, and have a collaborative leadership approach.
• Experience with Tensor Flow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, GPU, and LLM inference is a plus.

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