Machine Learning Engineer - Infrastructure

Company: Nextdoor
Location: Altamont
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.

Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 275,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

Meet your Future Neighbors

At Nextdoor, the machine learning team is starting to touch every area of our product. Notifications, feed, search, ads, and our trust/moderation systems all have an element of ML on the roadmap. A critical charter for the team is to build world-class ML infrastructure to enable us to build, maintain, and iterate on ML products quickly. Our team is scrappy, focused, and dedicated to ensuring that machine learning helps us realize our purpose: to cultivate a kinder world where everyone as a neighborhood they can rely on.

The Impact Youll Make

In This Role, You Will

You will be a key member of the team building our ML Infrastructure. This team is immensely important and builds tools and infrastructure that allow engineers and data scientists to build, deploy, and maintain ML in our product.

• Focus on developing the underlying data processing infrastructure to support the ML platform in collecting data, labeling data, and using data to monitor model performance
• Build infrastructure to train, serve, and monitor ML models
• Build and improve our platform-wide feature store which will house all of the data that will ultimately power our ML models.
• Help lay the foundation for a critical part of Nextdoors mission
  What Youll Bring to The Team
  
  • B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, a related field, or equivalent industry experience
  • 3+ years of industry experience building ML infrastructure at scale
  • Proven engineering skills. Experience writing, fixing, iterating, and maintaining machine learning and data infrastructure
  • Ability to work on unstructured problems and prioritize solutions with high developer empathy
    Bonus Points
    
    • Experience building infrastructure focused on consumer-oriented products.
    • Experience using AWS to build data-intensive infrastructure: K8s, Kafka, Spark, ECS, Kinesis, S3, Druid, Flink.
    • Experience leveraging publicly available ML platforms like Sagemaker, Kubeflow, MLflow, etc.
    • Experience serving models using a variety of ML model frameworks like Tensorflow, PyTorch, Sci-kit Learn, etc.
      At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the customers we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.by Jobble

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