Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform

About the role

Chime’s Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team builds and operates the infrastructure, tooling, and developer experience that powers machine learning across the company. We enable data scientists and ML engineers to develop, train, deploy, and monitor models reliably and efficiently.

As a Machine Learning Platform Engineer, you will design and build scalable systems that support model training, feature computation, real-time inference, and experimentation. You’ll work at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and applied machine learning.

This role focuses on building robust foundations that allow ML teams to move quickly while maintaining reliability, governance, and cost efficiency.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $187,000.00 and goes up to $259,000.00. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to

• Design, build, and operate scalable ML infrastructure on AWS

• Develop distributed training and batch processing systems using Ray

• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform

• Support and evolve the feature store and feature pipelines

• Develop data ingestion and streaming systems (e.g., Kinesis, Kafka, Flink, Spark, or similar technologies)

• Improve CI/CD workflows for ML models and platform components

• Enhance observability, reliability, and cost visibility across ML workloads

• Partner closely with Data Science and ML Engineering teams to improve developer experience

• Contribute to platform architecture decisions and technical roadmaps

• Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems

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Department: Data Engineering