Senior Software Engineer,Ranking Engineering Job San Jose area,California USA,Software Development

Senior Software Engineer, Ranking Engineering

Location:

San Jose

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A174731A

Responsibilities

What you will be doing:

Architect, build, and optimize large-scale ranking systems that serve billions of daily recommendations with low latency and high precision.
Design flexible, efficient, and scalable ranking frameworks to support evolving machine learning models and features.
Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate ranking models into production, ensuring seamless inference, freshness, and feedback loops.
Analyze system bottlenecks and apply performance optimizations at the framework and infrastructure level (CPU/GPU, memory, storage, networking).
Drive technical excellence and best practices in software design, code quality, and system reliability.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience in building large-scale recommendation, ranking, or search systems.
Experience in C++, Go, or Python, and with distributed computing frameworks.
Solid understanding of ranking algorithms, machine learning inference systems, and system performance optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in machine learning platform infrastructure, particularly online prediction serving or ranking pipelines.
Familiarity with feature engineering pipelines, model lifecycle management, and A/B testing systems.
Experience working with multi-threading, memory management, and low‑latency service architectures.
Proven ability to lead complex projects across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Job Information

Base salary range: $212800 - $450000 annually.

Benefits

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

EEO Statement

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;

Exercising sound judgment.

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