Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning Platform, Quora (Remote)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not provided

Quora is a "remote-first" company, allowing remote work from various countries. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details on employment eligibility.

Quora’s mission is to grow and share the world’s knowledge through its platform and Poe, a platform integrating various AI language models. The company fosters a culture of transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation. This role is part of a team focused on building a company-wide Machine Learning development platform, impacting Quora’s long-term success.

Requirements

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time).
• Experience with building and owning end-to-end machine learning or data science-related systems.
• 2+ years of industry experience in Machine Learning.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain large-scale distributed systems to support the ML development workflow (data collection, training, deployment, and realtime serving).
• Develop services on top of open-source technologies like Kubernetes, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.
• Own business-critical infrastructure, resolve production issues, and participate in the team-wide oncall rotation.
• Collaborate with ML engineers who use the platform, helping them be more impactful.

Company Information

• Company: Quora
• Mission: To grow and share the world’s knowledge.
• Products: Quora (global knowledge sharing platform) and Poe (AI language model platform).
• Team: Machine Learning team with 100+ models in production.
• Technology Stack: Kubernetes, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and other open-source technologies.