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SOSoundCloud

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendations (Experience)(m/w/x)

Berlin
Full-timeWith Home OfficeSenior
AI/ML
Data Science

Building and productionizing recommendation ML models on distributed systems like BigQuery. 4+ years software engineering experience, including production ML systems, required. Employee equity plan, relocation support, and generous professional development allowance.

Requirements

  • 1-2+ years building ML systems in production
  • Understanding of production ML systems vs. Jupyter models
  • 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • Production code writing, not just notebooks
  • Strong Scala or related JVM languages knowledge
  • Strong functional programming experience
  • Python and Go knowledge (plus)
  • Deep SQL skills for massive datasets
  • Cloud platform experience (AWS/GCP)
  • Containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar
  • Experience with distributed data processing
  • Experience with ETL pipelines
  • Understanding of data consistency patterns
  • Understanding of eventual consistency
  • Understanding of consistency trade-offs
  • Ability to debug issues across multiple systems
  • Ability to debug issues across multiple data sources

Tasks

  • Develop and test ML models
  • Productionize ML models
  • Make technical decisions on cost, latency, complexity, and maintainability
  • Navigate distributed systems (BigQuery, BigTable, Airflow, DynamoDB)
  • Design and implement data pipelines
  • Perform feature engineering
  • Train and serve ML models
  • Write technical RFCs
  • Communicate trade-offs to stakeholders
  • Set up monitoring and A/B testing frameworks
  • Measure real user impact
  • Debug complex issues in data pipelines and ML models
  • Champion maintainable code
  • Write clear, testable Scala/Python code
  • Share knowledge through documentation
  • Conduct code reviews
  • Mentor teammates
  • Contribute to technical strategy
  • Develop team best practices
  • Leverage agentic workflows and AI-assisted engineering
  • Work end-to-end on features
  • Collaborate with Product and Design
  • Architect data pipelines processing billions of events
  • Build and ship production ML systems
  • Balance performance, cost, and user experience
  • Work across BigQuery, Airflow, BigTable, APIs

Work Experience

  • 4 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • Scala
  • JVM languages
  • Python
  • Go
  • SQL
  • BigQuery
  • Spark
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Airflow

Benefits

Other Benefits

  • Relocation support

Mental Health Support

  • Creativity and Wellness benefit

Competitive Pay

  • Employee Equity Plan

Additional Allowances

  • Generous professional development allowance

More Vacation Days

  • Flexible vacation policy
  • 35 days of PTO annually

Learning & Development

  • Free German courses

Snacks & Drinks

  • Snacks and goodies

Free or Subsidized Food

  • 2 free lunches weekly
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