Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Modeling

Windfall

full-time

Posted on: 9/22/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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💰 $170,000 - $215,000 per year

Senior

AirflowBigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPostgresPython

About the role

Architect and lead the development of distributed services and infrastructure to support the entire machine learning/modeling lifecycle.
Design and implement robust data pipelines for feature engineering and model training using tools like Airflow and Dataflow.
Develop and maintain systems for deploying, serving, and monitoring ML models in production.
Work closely with data scientists to translate modeling needs into robust, scalable engineering solutions.
Drive technical design, specifications, and implementation for our backend modeling services.
Take ownership of systems that build, train, and deploy models; design and build a scalable MLOps platform.

5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
Expert object-oriented programming understanding in Python
Experience building distributed systems, particularly for MLOps or data processing workflows.
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, especially for ML models.
You are an excellent communicator who can simplify complex problems and work collaboratively.
You are comfortable making trade-offs between quality, complexity, and speed-of-delivery.
Some technologies you will use: Cloud platform: GCP; Programming language: Python; Orchestration: Airflow; Data warehouse & databases: Postgres, BigQuery; Containerization: Kubernetes & Docker; Messaging system: Google PubSub