Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer

About this role As a Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer, you will help design, improve, and operate a scalable ML platform to accelerate model training, deployment, and governance. You are the technical bridge between data science and production engineering. You’ll be joining a small but deeply critical team that scales Faire’s ability to support tens of thousands of local businesses in a constantly narrowing retail landscape. What You Will Do Design and operate ML infrastructure, including workspaces, clusters, jobs, and workflows Productionize ML workloads using Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Databricks Workflows Teach data scientists how to utilize our ML platform to advance development from notebook to production for our most critical models Implement Unity Catalog for data governance, lineage, access control, and secure multi-tenant usage Build CI/CD pipelines for ML using Terraform and Git-based workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions) Optimize performance, reliability, and cost across training and inference workloads Configure Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Role Based Authentication Controls (RBAC) for sensitive data sets Establish observability for data quality, model performance, and platform health Build and maintain ML Platform technical documentation What it takes 8+ years of experience building production ML or data platforms A degree (preferably graduate level) in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related technical field Strong hands‑on expertise with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Proficiency in Python, SQL, and distributed systems concepts Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure‑as‑code Solid understanding of MLOps best practices: CI/CD, monitoring, reproducibility, and security Experience supporting multiple ML teams in a shared platform environment Active ownership of orphaned problems and willingness to assimilate missing knowledge to get the job done Salary Range San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $224,000 to $308,000 per year. This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Tech Stack Languages Python SQL Kotlin ML Frameworks PyTorch MLFlow Big Data & Processing Spark Kafka Databricks Snowflake Fivetran Iceberg Unity Catalog Datadog Airflow Cockroach DB MySQL Cloud & Infrastructure AWS S3 SageMaker Kubernetes Docker GitHub Actions Terraform Generative AI Claude Sonnet 4.5 ChatGPT 5.2 Equal Employment Opportunity Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Accommodation for Disabilities Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form ( Privacy Notice For information about the type of personal data Faire collects from applicants, as well as your choices regarding the data collected about you, please visit Faire’s Privacy Notice ( #J-18808-Ljbffr Dormont Manufacturing Co