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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Host Pricing & Settings
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Role overview
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Host Pricing & Settings
Requirements and responsibilities
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The Difference You Will Make:
- Define the architecture and contracts governing how models move from development to production — feature store design, model schema management, online/offline inference consistency, and multi-version support.
- Lead the buildout of a unified serving stack that eliminates per-model one-off implementations and gives data scientists a turnkey path from training to production.
- Architect backfill and evaluation infrastructure so the modeling team can simulate production inference over historical data in days, not weeks.
- Establish domain contracts between Modeling and Serving so each team can move independently with clear, enforced interfaces.
A Typical Day:
- Review and evolve the ML serving architecture — making tradeoff calls on feature pipeline design, model composition, and API interfaces.
- Write and review code for feature engineering jobs, feature store configurations, and serving service endpoints.
- Partner with Data Science, MLE, MLI and core Pricing & Availability systems BE teams to define artifact handoffs and integration contracts.
- Drive milestone planning across the Host Pricing & Settings org, sequencing work to deliver value incrementally.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and hands-on pairing on the hardest infrastructure problems.
Your Expertise:
- 12+ years in backend or platform engineering, with substantial experience building production ML systems or data-intensive infrastructure.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Scala, and/or Python.
- Deep understanding of ML systems design: feature stores, training/serving consistency, model versioning, and online/offline inference pipelines.
- Experience with high-scale batch and real-time data pipelines (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or equivalent), including point-in-time correctness for backfills.
- Expertise with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications — well-designed APIs, efficient data contracts, multi-tenant serving infrastructure.
- Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives spanning ML and platform engineering.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Feature Store Depth: Production experience with Chronon, Tecton, Feast, or equivalent — including online/offline consistency and backfill automation.
- Model Serving Infrastructure: Experience with model schema management, multi-version support, and model composition frameworks.
- Domain Contract Design: Track record defining and enforcing technical contracts between ML modeling, MLI, serving teams and/or product surfaces.
- Evaluation Velocity: Measurable impact improving the speed at which ML teams evaluate candidate models and ship to production.
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