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Staff Engineer - Recommendations (ML)

Формат работы
remote (Global)
Тип работы
fulltime
Грейд
senior
Английский
b2
Вакансия из списка Hirify.GlobalВакансия из Hirify Global, списка международных tech-компаний
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TL;DR
Staff Engineer - Recommendations (ML): Building and operating scalable data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and personalization systems for VRChat content discovery and social experiences with an accent on data engineering, real-time recommendations, and large-scale processing. Focus on designing analytical and real-time data models, implementing Spark and Kafka processing, and evolving recommendation capabilities from heuristics to data-backed personalization.

Location: Anywhere; fully remote

Company

hirify.global provides a social VR platform where users create, explore, and interact in community-built virtual experiences.

What you will do

  • Develop, maintain, and optimize scalable data pipelines, backend services, and APIs for recommendations, content discovery, groups, and events.
  • Design data models and schemas for analytical workloads and real-time recommendation systems.
  • Build data processing jobs with large-scale technologies such as Spark and Kafka.
  • Implement backend infrastructure including REST and WebSocket APIs, caching, queueing, and cloud orchestration.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and engineers to make reliable data available for personalization.
  • Help respond to production outages when needed.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience focused on data engineering and scalable backend systems for SaaS products or online platforms.
  • Experience building and optimizing production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience optimizing analytical and high-throughput real-time database access.
  • Experience with Spark, Hadoop, Beam, Kafka, AWS or Google Cloud, and technologies such as Python, JavaScript/Node.js, Mongo, and Redis.
  • Experience with Elasticsearch, data warehousing, and machine learning systems.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a remote, cross-functional environment.

Nice to have

  • Experience building content discovery or recommendation systems.
  • Experience with online communities, VR, social networks, social graphs, or user-generated content.
  • Experience with consumer products, e-commerce, or two-sided marketplaces.

Culture & Benefits

  • 100% remote work from anywhere with flexible working hours and core collaboration hours.
  • Health benefits and paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) for US employees and Group RRSP for Canadian employees.
  • Stock options and a generous paid holiday schedule.
  • Unlimited and flexible vacation time.

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