
Senior ML Data Ops Engineer
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Mateo • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own the production ML lifecycle — deployment, monitoring, scaling, retraining, and reliability of models in production
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications, infrastructure, data, and ML artifacts using AWS and GitHub Actions
- Build and operate cloud data infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK) with a focus on security, scalability, and compliance
- Develop and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines across structured and semi-structured sources (APIs, files, healthcare data)
- Partner with data science and analytics to ensure high-quality, well-modeled data in Snowflake using dbt and modern ELT tooling
- Implement observability and monitoring across services, data pipelines, and ML models (drift, performance, failures)
- Support regulated workloads (HIPAA / PHI) with strong data and model governance practices
- Contribute to technical roadmap, documentation, and engineering best practices across ML, infra, and data
Requirements
- 6–8+ years of experience across DevOps, MLOps, and/or Data Engineering
- Deep experience with AWS (SageMaker, ECS/EKS, Lambda, ECR, CloudWatch, Step Functions)
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK)
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions preferred)
- Containers & orchestration (Docker, ECS/Kubernetes)
- Advanced SQL and Python skills for data pipelines, automation, and ML workflows
- Experience with modern data stacks (Snowflake, dbt, Airbyte or similar)
- Comfort working cross-functionally in a fast-moving, startup environment.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, equity grant, generous paid time off
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental & vision insurance with 100% of monthly premium covered for employees
- Company-sponsored 401k plan
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Hard skills
ML lifecycleCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformAWS CDKdata ingestiondata transformationSQLPythondata pipelines
Soft skills
cross-functional collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilityteamwork