Software Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure

Stripe
Toronto, Canada
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward mid-level software engineers comfortable with building scalable ML infrastructure and collaborating across US and Canada teams.

Best fit for

  • Engineers with production ML platform experience seeking impact at scale.
    — “Experience working on production ML platforms, MLOps solutions
  • Candidates who thrive in cross-functional collaboration with ML teams.
    — “Working directly with product teams and ML engineers
  • Developers pragmatic about balancing ideal solutions with business needs.
    — “you know when to aim for the ideal solution

Things to consider

  • Requires experience with high availability, low latency systems.
    — “Experience running operations for high availability, low latency systems
  • Involves building services across multiple regions.
    — “services for notebooks, ML model training, experimentation, serving, and LLM applications across multiple regions

How to stand out

  • Showcase specific examples of transitioning ML models to production.
    — “seamlessly transition from experimentation to production
  • Highlight contributions to LLM applications or AI agents.
    — “building and shipping production AI agents
  • Demonstrate experience with full lifecycle of ML development.
    — “full life cycle of software development
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • designing and building scalable, reliable, and secure services for notebooks, ML model training, experimentation, serving, and LLM applications across multiple regions
  • creating services and libraries that enable ML engineers at Stripe to seamlessly transition from experimentation to production across Stripe’s systems
  • working directly with product teams and ML engineers to improve their day-to-day productivity
  • taking ownership of and finding solutions for technical and product challenges
Typical background
2+ years of professional software development experienceexperience working through the full life cycle of software developmentexperience running operations for high availability, low latency systems

Skills & requirements

Required

Service Oriented ArchitectureLarge-scale Distributed SystemsProduction ML PlatformsMlops SolutionsLLM ApplicationsHigh AvailabilityLow Latency SystemsPartnering With Other Teams

Preferred

Building And Shipping Production AI AgentsLlms And LLM FrameworksTraining And Shipping Machine Learning Models To Production

Stack & domain

Service Oriented ArchitectureLarge-scale Distributed SystemsProduction ML PlatformsMlops SolutionsLLM ApplicationsHigh AvailabilityLow Latency SystemsPartnering With Other TeamsProblem SolvingTeamworkFinanceHealthcare

About the role

Original posting from Stripe

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Stripe processes over $1T in payments volume per year, which is roughly 1% of the world’s GDP. The tremendous amount of data makes Stripe one of the best places to do machine learning. The ML Infra team builds services and tools that power every step in the ML lifecycle, including data exploration, feature generation, experimentation, training, deploying, serving ML models, and building LLM applications. With the phenomenal developments happening in the field of AI, we are positioned to accelerate the adoption of AI/ML across all parts of the company by building highly scalable and reliable foundational infrastructure.

What you’ll do

You will work closely with machine learning engineers, data scientists, and product engineering teams to enable seamless end-to-end experience in building solutions across data, analytics, and AI/ML platforms. You will build the next generation of ML Infra services and major new capabilities that substantially improve ML development velocity and MLOps maturity across the company.

Responsibilities 

Designing and building scalable, reliable, and secure services for notebooks, ML model training, experimentation, serving, and LLM applications across multiple regions. 

Creating services and libraries that enable ML engineers at Stripe to seamlessly transition from experimentation to production across Stripe’s systems. 

Working directly with product teams and ML engineers to improve their day-to-day productivity. 

Taking ownership of and finding solutions for technical and product challenges by working with a diverse set of systems, processes, and technologies.

Who you are

We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re passionate about solving business problems and making impact, you are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems. You are comfortable working with other Stripe teams across the US and Canada.

Minimum requirements

2+ years of professional software development experience with a solid background on service oriented architecture and large-scale distributed systems

Experience working through the full life cycle of software development, from talking to users, to design and implementation, to testing and deployment, to operations

Experience working on production ML platforms, MLOps solutions, or building LLM applications

Experience running operations for high availability, low latency systems

Experience partnering with other teams to drive business outcomes

A sense of pragmatism: you know when to aim for the ideal solution and when to adjust course

Preferred qualifications 

Experience building and shipping production AI agents

Familiarity with the LLMs and LLM Frameworks

Experience training and shipping machine learning models to production to solve critical business problems

Source: Stripe careers

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