AI, Search & Knowledge - Software Development Engineer, Tech Ops

This Software Development Engineer role will encompass the entire lifecycle of ML platform reliability engineering. The engineer will address user queries or tickets, triage and mitigate issues, converting diagnosis processes and solutions from ad hoc to systematic, reactive to proactive, and manual to automatic. They will visualize ML platform scalability and stability, assessing their impact on development velocity and resource utilization. Based on the actual impact, they will prioritize engineering efforts across teams, enhancing the system's key performance indicators.

• Ability of analyzing problems in depth, determining root cause, articulate clearly and propose solutions
• Solid understanding of system architecture and large-scale ML service and computational platform operations
• Proficiency in coding with scripting and programming languages, including but not limited to - Bash, Python, Golang
• Knowledge of ML training and production workflows, understanding dependencies among architectural building blocks
• 7+ years experience of software development for compute infra or its operational stack, commensurate with operating cutting-edge hybrid cloud platforms, * Knowledge of ML, including LLM, as well as experience in developing real, large scale ML jobs
• Knowledge of analytics method and pipelines, able to utilize it for visualization of platform KPIs
• Experience designing and implementing systems to support ML applications
• Experience in large-scale service and job deployment, using an orchestration framework (Kubernetes) and cloud services for large-scale projects
• Experience in observability of system behaviors, having made decision what should be visible according to actual needs to solve specific problem
• Experience and knowledge on Quality Assurance, A/B testing for large-scale systems

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