Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy

Grafana Labs

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Grafana Labs evolving recommendation systems for an interactive learning platform. Focused on personalized approaches and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Posted 7/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇪🇸 SpainSenior💰 €82,988 - €99,586 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating recommendation systems, with a focus on applied model ownership and collaboration across disciplines. Proficient in version-controlled environments and capable of delivering incremental improvements in product settings.

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Recommendation SystemsApplied Model OwnershipGo ProgrammingTypeScript ProgrammingDistributed Systems

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Hard Skills

Recommendation ScienceRanking SystemsSearch SystemsMatching SystemsPropensity ModelsNext-Best-Action SystemsModel ValidationModel MonitoringVersion ControlIncremental Improvements

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunication

Tools & Technologies

HTTPGRPCStreaming

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoGRPCTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Evolve the Interactive Learning Plugin's recommendation system
Build and operate applied models
Define what recommendation quality means
Ship incremental improvements
Partner across disciplines

Requirements

What you’ll need

Recommendation and personalization science: you have built recommendation, ranking, search, matching, propensity, or next-best-action systems. You are comfortable beginning with simple, explainable approaches when they are the best way to learn.
HTTP/gRPC, streaming, Go/TypeScript previous experience in distributed systems.
Applied model ownership. You have personally built, validated, monitored, and iterated on models used in a product or operational environment. You can work effectively in version-controlled codebases and collaborate with engineers on production implementation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect.