Senior Software Engineer II, (ML/AI Platform)

Instacart

3d•$192,000 - $242,000•Remote

About The Position

At Instacart, the ML/AI Platform team is a critical part of enabling the business across all areas. From owning the online/offline feature store to the serving and training layer, our team enables the entire business to succeed. We take pride in having extreme levels of ownership and high levels of collaboration. You will be working closely with seasoned engineers and leaders across the company to drive specific use cases end to end. Our work directly impacts the success of Instacart. As a Senior Engineer on the ML/AI platform team, you will play a key role in building the internal platform which supports training and deploying AI models across the entire organization. You’ll take ownership of defining the platform to enable AI model fine-tuning and batch inference by building the SDKs and supporting the infra to support these unique workloads. We are looking for someone with high ownership and the ability to be a leader in the space.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
3 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
2 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
1 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership
Strong proficiency in maintaining high standards for production services
Rapid coding skills and management of production services
Experience with high scale throughput and distributed systems problems

Nice To Haves

Strong communication skills and ability to contextualize problems across various audiences
Skilled at navigating ambiguity and involving the right stakeholders to address issues efficiently
Experience building and shipping products to users
Expertise building platforms and high scale infrastructure
Visionary thinker capable of generating transformative ideas
Prior experience working with AI Platforms like Ray is a plus

Responsibilities

Building the internal platform which supports training and deploying AI models across the entire organization.
Taking ownership of defining the platform to enable AI model fine-tuning and batch inference by building the SDKs and supporting the infra to support these unique workloads.
Managing cross-cutting stakeholder relationships, prioritizing customer needs first.
Navigating ambiguous, hairy, and technical problem spaces.
Jumping into domains, languages, and problem areas that might be new and unfamiliar.