Braze
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform
$184K–$348K
Chicago +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- Chicago
New York City - Experience
- 8+ years building and operating distributed systems in production. Deep modeling experience is a plus, not a requirement.
About the job
Owns the ML platform that enables Braze to train, deploy, serve, and operate production machine-learning systems reliably and efficiently at global scale.
What you'll do
- Lead complex infrastructure initiatives from design through production, including model-serving systems, customer-specific model pipelines, and CI/deployment tooling.
- Set technical direction and production quality standards for ML systems; lead incident response and improve reliability and cost efficiency.
- Coordinate platform initiatives with partner teams, review designs and code, mentor engineers and data scientists, and connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building and operating distributed systems in production, including deployment and operations.
- Production experience with ML workloads, such as training pipelines, model serving, feature systems, or ML platform tooling.
- Technical leadership experience directing a team, leading cross-team initiatives, and developing senior engineers.
- Deep working knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, including identity and access management, networking, and cost.
Nice to have
- Queueing or orchestration systems such as Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Ray; ML platform tools such as MLflow, model registries, feature stores, or ML observability.
- Experience with Python, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and Redis; SOX or HIPAA compliance; or customer engagement, personalization, or marketing technology.
Pay
$184,000 and $314,000/year USD base salary; $204,000 and $348,000/year USD total pay (OTE, including bonus or commission)
Tools
Kubernetes, Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Ray, MLflow, Python, Ruby on Rails
AI focus
Build and operate ML and AI-enhanced marketing solutions, including model training pipelines, model serving, and platform tooling. The posting also states that AI-assisted tools are used in recruiting.
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