Remote Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

Join our Feeds Experience team as a software engineer to design, develop, and maintain large-scale data pipelines and backend services for Tumblr's content feeds, search, personalization, and notifications. Collaborate with the team to enhance engagement on feeds, research new features, define success metrics, and contribute to the team's strategy and roadmap.

Requirements

• Good understanding of statistics, machine learning, and mining of massive datasets
• 3+ years of professional experience developing large-scale data-pipelines and machine learning approaches for content retrieval, ranking, relevance, and personalization
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with expertise in at least one among the following programming languages: Python, Scala, Java
• Have hands-on experience with data processing frameworks like Apache Spark and Apache Flink at scale
• Excellent written English and can effectively communicate with stakeholders and colleagues from a cross-functional organization

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to enhance engagement on feeds, notifications, content discovery and relevance of search results
• Research and develop new features to improve user engagement and the reactivation of lapsed users
• Define success metrics, launch A/B tests, perform analysis to validate hypotheses, and build tools to enable continuous experimentation
• With stakeholders from Engineering, Product, and User Research, contribute to the team’s strategy and roadmap

Benefits

• Salary range: $100,000-$200,000 USD
• Fully-remote company with an open vacation policy