Backend Engineer, MLOps

About the work 

This group is focused on enabling GitLab users to build and run data science workloads across GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. This individual will play a key role in building features that aid in the expansion of GitLab’s core personas to address the needs of data science teams and will work cross-functionally with other GitLab stages to ensure our platform supports ML/AI workloads that align with our ModelOps product direction. This individual will be responsible for enhancing existing product features used by millions of users across the world.

Your role will be to build, scale, and iterate on ML features that help operationalize customers’ ML ( Both AI and Gen AI solutions )  and aid in dropping the costs of Machine Learning. You will balance short and long-term efforts from a feature perspective and work on backend machine learning enterprise feature challenges. With the team, you will be building the backbone of our ML efforts that solve the challenges of today and tomorrow for our customers building in the journey of ML.

 Some examples:

• MLOps features in GitLab DevSecops Platform 
• GitLab Model Registry 

What you will do

• Play a key role in the design, implementation, building and integration of product features;
• Solve technical backend machine learning  problems of high scope and complexity;
• Test, deploy, maintain, and improve ML system solution features that aid with registry, deployments, inference of models;
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment;
• Collaborate with other ML, Python, Ruby, Golang engineers to build GenAI Solutions

What you will bring 

• Significant experience in Golang
• Some level of python is preferred
• Some level of Vue.Js is preferred
• Significant experience in how to operationalize the lifecycle management of data science workloads, including data ingestion and ETL, feature engineering, development environment setup, CI/CD integration, model versioning, testing, and production deployment
• Deep technical understanding and usability  of ML/AI technologies (e.g GPUs, model inference, training, natural language processing, large language models, embeddings, vector database, etc)
• Production experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and preferably GCP or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with inference backend and post-production monitoring of large language models ( >10GB)
• High interest in defining experimentation and agent architecture for large-scale ML recommendation engines 
• A genuine passion for learning as you will be solving the challenges of today, tomorrow, and many years to come.

About the team

Today, data scientists piece together data, tooling, and frameworks to get bespoke data science workloads running and producing business value. Data scientists then hand off models to engineering teams to attempt to deploy them to production. These teams speak different languages, use different tools, and have completely different workflows. This makes it very difficult to deploy data science workloads to production, increasing time to value and costs. One of our primary goals for our ModelOps stage is to reduce the complexities of data science workloads and integrate these workloads to easily be managed and developed within GitLab.

How GitLab will support you

• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Unlimited PTO (paid time off)
• GitLab is home to many dedicated Team Member Resource Groups
• Benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
• Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
• A personal growth and development budget per year
• Parental leave: 16 weeks
• Home office support

 

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.