
Staff MLOps Engineer
Grindr
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $270,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build and maintain end-to-end ML pipelines for data ingestion, feature computation, model training, validation, deployment, and inference, all at substantial scale of data
- Stand up and manage a feature store, ensuring feature consistency, lineage, and reuse across teams.
- Expertise with best in class tools for managing deployment, scheduling, and environments and how to use them in the specialized regime of ML Infrastructure.
- Develop automated model deployment workflows with CI/CD, safe rollout strategies, and reproducibility guarantees.
- Implement monitoring and observability for ML systems, including data quality checks, drift detection, performance metrics, and alerting.
- Build and support training environments with experiment tracking, distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, and artifact and environment management.
- Collaborate with ML engineers and data engineers to streamline workflows, improve model iteration speed, and enforce MLOps best practices.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability of ML systems through strong engineering and operational rigor.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
- 5+ years experience in MLOps, ML platform engineering, ML infrastructure, or similar roles.
- Strong experience building production ML pipelines and supporting end-to-end ML workflows.
- Excellent engineering fundamentals: Python, SQL, bash, Git.
- Experience with big data and distributed compute: Snowflake, Spark/pySpark, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm.
- Experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) sufficient to support training pipelines and deployment workflows.
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Ability to produce well-engineered, maintainable software with tests, documentation, and operational rigor.
- Experience with data quality frameworks, observability tooling, or experiment tracking systems.
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
- Family Formation Up to $200,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
- Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
- Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
- Gender-Affirming Care : Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
- Time Off & Rest Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.
- Other Benefits: Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
MLOpsML platform engineeringML infrastructureproduction ML pipelinesPythonSQLbashGitbig datadistributed compute
Soft Skills
collaborationengineering fundamentalsoperational rigor
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in CSBachelor’s degree in EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Mathematics