Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure
PatreonSubscription Platform company
New York, United StatesSenior
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About the role
TL;DR
Senior ML Engineer to build and scale infrastructure for relevance systems at Patreon.
- •{"about_the_role": "Patreon is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure to join the Relevance team.
- •This role will focus on building and scaling ML systems that power creator discovery and content surfacing across the platform, including search, feed ranking, and creator-fan matching.", "key_responsibilities": ["Architect, scale, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency live inference infrastructure.", "Own the end-to-end feature store lifecycle, ensuring high availability and consistency.", "Design and implement observability, monitoring, and validation frameworks.", "Automate model deployment and reliability testing.", "Debug complex relevance systems when performance bottlenecks or reliability issues arise."], "requirements": ["Deep experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-grade ML infrastructure at scale.", "Strong background in distributed systems and backend engineering, with robust Python coding skills.", "Systematic approach to debugging complex, high-throughput systems and performance bottlenecks.", "Experience building '0 to 1' infrastructure systems.", "Strong communication skills and ability to create clear documentation."]}
Required skills
PythonAWSKubernetesDockerCI/CDMicroservicesSQLLinuxGit
Nice-to-have skills
TensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnLLMsTerraformPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchgRPCREST API
Domain expertise
media
Benefits & perks
equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays, recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, 401k plan with matching
Tech stack
PythonSQLBashReactNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETASP.NETNestJSLaravelSymfonyGinEchoActixPhoenixMicroservicesPandasNumPySparkAirflowdbtTableauPower BILookerSnowflake