Senior Software Engineer, ML Platform

The role

You will build and architect DailyPay's ML platform from the ground up. This involves designing infrastructure for feature engineering, model training, deployment, serving, and monitoring.

What you will do

• Architect, design, and build a unified ML platform.
• Design and build scalable services and pipelines for feature generation, training, deployment, and inference.
• Build self-service tooling and guardrails for data scientists.
• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure for machine learning workloads.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML models and infrastructure.
• Design monitoring and alerting systems using tools like Datadog.
• Lead design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Ensure ML pipelines handle sensitive data in accordance with company policy.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production services
• Strong background in distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, and API design
• Experience across the full software lifecycle: design, testing, deployment, and on-call operations
• Proficiency in Python
• Familiarity with ML frameworks (scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch)
• Experience with event streaming platforms (Apache Kafka or equivalent)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Solid CI/CD experience: GitHub Actions or equivalent
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, and Kubernetes or ECS)
• Experience building or operating ML infrastructure: training pipelines, model serving, feature stores, or model registries
• Strong cloud platform proficiency: AWS preferred (SageMaker, Lambda, S3, EC2, IAM, ECS), or equivalent GCP or Azure experience
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana)

Nice to have

• Experience with experimentation infrastructure and A/B testing systems
• Experience in fintech or other regulated industries
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure, platform, or MLOps projects
• Experience in AWS SageMaker or GCP Vertex is ideal

About the company

DailyPay is the leader in On-Demand Pay, helping employers modernize how people get their pay. It serves more than 1,900 employers and over 6 million employees.