Senior Staff ML Platform Engineer — Remote

Nubeero Limited; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a senior backend engineer to own the technical strategy for Modeling → ML Serving → API interfaces within the Host Pricing organization. This hands-on role expects you to contribute code while guiding architecture and cross‑team collaboration.

You will define contracts, build a unified serving stack, and design backfill/evaluation infrastructure to enable fast, reliable production inference on historical data, while mentoring peers across data science and platform teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in backend or platform engineering with production ML systems or data-intensive infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Scala, and/or Python.
• Deep understanding of ML systems design: feature stores, training/serving consistency, model versioning, and online/offline inference pipelines.
• Experience with high-scale batch and real-time data pipelines (Spark, Airflow, Kafka).
• Expertise with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications — well-designed APIs, data contracts, multi-tenant serving infrastructure.
• Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives spanning ML and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and contracts governing how models move from development to production — feature store design, model schema management, online/offline inference consistency, and multi-version support.
• Lead the buildout of a unified serving stack that eliminates per-model one-off implementations and gives data scientists a turnkey path from training to production.
• Architect backfill and evaluation infrastructure so the modeling team can simulate production inference over historical data in days, not weeks.
• Establish domain contracts between Modeling and Serving so each team can move independently with clear, enforced interfaces.
• Review and evolve the ML serving architecture — making tradeoff calls on feature pipeline design, model composition, and API interfaces.
• Write and review code for feature engineering jobs, feature store configurations, and serving service endpoints.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and hands-on pairing on the hardest infrastructure problems.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Scala

Python

ML systems design

APIs

Data contracts

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

Mentoring

Cross-team leadership

Tools

Chronon

Tecton

Feast

Model serving frameworks

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a senior backend engineer to own the technical strategy for Modeling → ML Serving → API interfaces within the Host Pricing organization. This hands-on role expects you to contribute code while guiding architecture and cross‑team collaboration.

You will define contracts, build a unified serving stack, and design backfill/evaluation infrastructure to enable fast, reliable production inference on historical data, while mentoring peers across data science and platform teams.