Senior ML Platform Engineer - Production-Grade ML Infra

DailyPay, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Equity stake

401K with company match

Unlimited PTO

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

DailyPay, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build DailyPay's ML platform from the ground up.

You will design and deploy the infrastructure used by all machine learning models, including feature engineering, training, deployment, and monitoring at scale. You will work closely with data scientists, engineers, and product stakeholders, operating with autonomy to define work, identify dependencies, and raise the bar for the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong background in distributed systems and API design
• Experience across the full software lifecycle
• Proficiency in Python with production-grade code
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS)
• Experience with ML infrastructure (training pipelines, model serving)
• Cloud platform proficiency (AWS preferred; SageMaker, S3, EC2) or equivalent (GCP/Azure)
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus)
• Strong SQL skills and data pipeline tooling
• Excellent cross-team communication

Responsibilities

• Own design and delivery of DailyPay's unified ML platform
• Build scalable, reliable services for feature generation and model deployment
• Create self-service tooling with validation and rollback safeguards
• Manage AWS infrastructure for ML workloads
• Develop robust CI/CD pipelines for ML models and infra
• Design monitoring and alerting for ML systems
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers
• Ensure security/compliance across ML pipelines
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and product teams

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

ML infrastructure

Observability

SQL

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Grafana/Datadog

Job description

DailyPay, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build DailyPay's ML platform from the ground up.

You will design and deploy the infrastructure used by all machine learning models, including feature engineering, training, deployment, and monitoring at scale. You will work closely with data scientists, engineers, and product stakeholders, operating with autonomy to define work, identify dependencies, and raise the bar for the team.