Braze
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform
$184K–$348K
New York City · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years building and operating distributed systems in production.
About the job
Own and evolve the production ML platform that trains, deploys, serves, and monitors customer-specific models at global scale.
What you'll do
- Lead and deliver complex ML infrastructure initiatives, including multi-region model serving, training pipelines, and CI and deployment tooling.
- Set the platform’s technical direction and production quality standards; lead incident response and improve reliability and cost efficiency.
- Coordinate 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 production systems, including deployment and operations, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
- Hands-on experience with production ML workloads, such as training pipelines, model serving, feature systems, or ML platform tooling.
- Technical leadership experience setting team direction, leading multi-quarter 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
- Experience with queueing and orchestration systems, ML platform tooling, or the listed stack: Python, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes.
- Experience with 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 (On Target Earnings, 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 customer-specific model training pipelines and prediction-serving systems. Deep modeling experience is a plus, not a requirement.
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