Machine Learning Engineer 5 – Platform Forecasting, Optimization
Netflix
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $170,000 - $720,000 per year
Job Level
Junior
Tech Stack
CloudJavaPythonPyTorchTensorflow
About the role
- Forecast and predict key business and technical inputs such as traffic volume and resource demand across our fleet of cloud services and systems
- Build, update and maintain machine learning models to optimize our infrastructure footprint on topics such as capacity planning, autoscaling, loadshedding, and traffic steering
- Own the end-to-end model lifecycle including ideation, feature building, training, evaluation, monitoring and continuous improvement
- Partner with software engineers to identify high value opportunities to apply modeling techniques to improve the performance of infrastructure management systems
- Partner with ML engineers and data scientists on model observability initiatives and experimentation to improve model design
- Live Netflix values while bringing a new perspective to continue improving our culture
Requirements
- Experienced in developing and implementing machine learning models with a successful track record of driving business impact
- Deeply familiar with the ML lifecycle
- Strong technical judgment when assessing different solutions for deploying models in production
- Experienced in the infrastructure domain, having worked on large distributed infra systems on topics such as demand forecasting, capacity planning, traffic steering, load balancing, etc.
- Exceptional thought partner with strong communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to cross-functional partners and business leaders
- Comfortable with ambiguity and a strong ownership mindset
- Strong coder with experience in Python and standard ML frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow
- Experience with languages like Java or C++ is a plus
- Familiarity with optimization models with standard frameworks/solvers (e.g., XPress, cvxpy, Gurobi) is a plus
- Familiarity with operational tooling for ML services (monitoring, alerting, etc.)
Benefits
- Health Plans
- Mental Health support
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
- Stock Option Program
- Disability Programs
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Family-forming benefits
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- Paid leave of absence programs
- 35 days annually for paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
machine learning modelscapacity planningtraffic steeringload balancingPythonPyTorchTensorFlowoptimization modelsXPresscvxpy
Soft skills
strong communication skillsstrong technical judgmentexceptional thought partnerownership mindsetcomfortable with ambiguity