Whatnot · 4 hours ago
Software Engineer, Core Machine Learning
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$205K/yr - $315K/yr
4+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Take a leading role in deploying ML models on business critical surfaces & flows.
Improve our infrastructure to enable new use cases, i.e. spinning up an ANN-based retrieval stack to unlock RAG or make home feed ranking more scalable.
Develop scalable machine learning design patterns that make it easy for machine learning scientists and engineers to safely deploy models to production.
Define and advance our technical approach to scalable machine learning.
Flex outside your comfort zone to help take on new challenges as they emerge.
Qualification
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Required
4+ years of experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
3+ years of software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems for consumer-scale loads.
1+ years of professional experience developing software in Python
Ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams.
Experience with operational, search, and key-value databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis.
Firm grasp of visualization tools for monitoring and logging e.g. DataDog, Grafana.
Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Apache Kafka, Flink.
Professionalism around collaborating in a remote working environment and well tested, reproducible work.
Exceptional documentation and communication skills.
Benefits
Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
Work From Home Support
Home office setup allowance
Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
Care benefits
Monthly allowance on both food and wellness
Annual allowance towards Childcare
Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
Parental Leave
16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work
company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.
Company
Whatnot
Whatnot is a live stream platform and marketplace that enables collectors and enthusiasts to connect, buy, and sell verified products. It is a sub-organization of Whatnot.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (14)
2022 (14)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$484.7MKey Investors
CapitalGY Combinator Continuity FundAndreessen Horowitz
2022-07-21Series D· $260M
2021-09-15Series C· $150M
2021-05-25Series B· $50M
Leadership Team
Grant LaFontaine
CEO & Co-Founder
Ludo Antonov
VP & Head of Engineering
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