Staff Machine Learning Engineer

**Want to help us, help others? We're hiring** GoFundMe is the world's most powerful community for good, dedicated to helping people help each other. By uniting individuals and nonprofits in one place, GoFundMe makes it easy and safe for people to ask for help and support causes—for themselves and each other. Together, our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010. Join us The GoFundMe team is searching for our next Staff ML Engineer to help design and implement our next generation of machine learning and AI-based services. You will collaborate with an accomplished and motivated team of individuals to deliver high-impact solutions for our users and our business. **The Job** - Design, build, and optimize scalable machine learning training and inference pipelines, ensuring robust integration with existing production systems. - Lead initiatives to streamline ML workflows, improve operational efficiency, and establish standardized procedures to achieve consistent, high-quality results across our ML systems. - Develop and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs using Python and FastAPI, integrating seamlessly with ML pipelines and services. - Take operational responsibility for team-owned services, including performance monitoring, optimization, troubleshooting, and participation in an on-call rotation. - Collaborate with both technical and non-technical colleagues, including data and applied scientists, software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders, to deliver reliable and scalable ML-driven products. - Coach and mentor fellow ML engineers, promoting a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence within the team. - Employ a diverse set of tools and platforms including Python, AWS, Databricks, Docker, Kubernetes, FastAPI, Terraform, Snowflake, New Relic, and GitHub to build, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available machine learning infrastructure. **You** - Have 7+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning engineering, software engineering, or related fields, emphasizing large-scale, distributed system design, ML pipeline development, and implementation. - Have deep expertise in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) and proven experience optimizing and deploying containerized workloads in cloud environments. - Demonstrate strong knowledge of relational and document-based databases, data storage paradigms, and efficient RESTful API design. - Have experience designing, developing, and deploying end-to-end machine learning systems, including data pipelines, model training and serving, and monitoring solutions. - Possess experience establishing robust CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (unit and integration), and deployment practices. - Exhibit strong leadership skills, including effective planning and management of complex projects, mentoring of team members, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture. - Are an excellent communicator, able to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (preferred). - Are proficient in Python; additional proficiency in Kotlin and Java is preferred. - Sense of humor is optional but appreciated. **Why you'll love it here** - **Make an Impact**: Be part of a mission-driven organization making a positive difference in millions of lives every year. - **Innovative Environment**: Work with a diverse, passionate, and talented team in a fast-paced, forward-thinking atmosphere. - **Collaborative Team**: Join a fun and collaborative team that works hard and celebrates success together. - **Competitive Benefits**: Enjoy competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits. - **Holistic Support**: Enjoy financial assistance for things like hybrid work, family planning, along with generous parental leave, flexible time-off policies, and mental health and wellness resources to support your overall well-being. - **Growth Opportunities**: Participate in learning, development, and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow. - **Commitment to DEI**: Contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion through ongoing initiatives and employee resource groups. - **Community Engagement**: Make a difference through our volunteering and Gives Back programs. **We live by our core values**: _impatient to be great_, _find a way_, _earn trust every day_, _fueled by purpose_. Be a part of something bigger with us **Learn more about GoFundMe**: We're proud to partner with GoFundMe.org, an independent public charity, to extend the reach and impact of our generous community, while helping drive critical social change. You can learn more about GoFundMe.org's activities and impact in their FY '24 annual report. Our annual "Year in Help" report reflects our community's impact in advancing our mission of helping people help each other. F