Staff Engineer, Core, MLOps

🔥 37 minutes ago

🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

💵 €100k - €115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Zyte

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

💰 $3M Debt Financing on 2021-12

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Zyte is a company specialized in providing web data extraction solutions that are now powered by AI. They offer a range of products including the Zyte API, which handles ban management, AI scraping, and proxy solutions for seamless web data collection. Additionally, Zyte provides scalable cloud hosting for Scrapy spiders, enabling efficient management and automation of web scraping tasks. Zyte caters to a diverse set of industries, providing data for e-commerce, news, AI, job postings, real estate, and more, while emphasizing legal compliance in their operations. With a focus on streamlined and cost-effective data extraction services, Zyte supports businesses in accelerating their data projects and enhancing data-driven decision-making.

📋 Description

• Architect and advance the control plane, including service registry, schema registry, SLO enforcement, and CLI tooling • Design and build the context plane to aggregate operational signals and create automated feedback loops for self-healing maintenance • Maintain and refine Java and Python client libraries, workload specifications, Helm charts, and deployment pipelines • Establish gRPC and Protocol Buffer definitions, API gateway transcoding, versioning policies, and schema evolution rules • Operate the platform substrate across Kubernetes, Terraform, HAProxy/Nginx ingresses, Confluent Kafka, event-billing pipelines, Valkey, and database modernizations • Lead Requests for Discussion on workflow orchestration, gateway orchestration, multi-cluster routing, and automated failover • Establish SLOs and error budgets, health-aware traffic isolation, and automated weighted canary deployments • Participate in shared infrastructure on-call rotation and lead incident post-mortems • Mentor engineers across squads, review system proposals, and establish engineering best practices • Serve as technical lead for the Core & MLOps squad and influence architecture and release velocity across neighboring squads • Build infrastructure powering Zyte’s web data extraction platform and its Java and Python microservices

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building scalable distributed backend systems • Proven track record of authoring internal platforms or core libraries widely adopted by engineering teams • Expertise in Java, including reactive frameworks such as Vert.x or Netty • Strong proficiency in Python • Deep gRPC and Protocol Buffers experience • Experience managing schema evolution and backward compatibility in mission-critical environments • Hands-on production Kubernetes expertise at scale • Experience with Terraform and event streaming with Kafka • Experience designing automated telemetry pipelines, materialized views, or feature stores that dynamically adapt system behavior based on production data • Proven success defining SLOs/SLIs, analyzing blast radius, and designing fault-tolerant systems around rigorous service contracts • Exceptional technical writing skills • Strong interpersonal and written communication skills for a globally distributed, remote-first environment • Passion for continuous learning and evaluating novel tools, architectures, and techniques • Experience with Java 21 and Python • Experience with Helm and CircleCI • Experience with multi-cloud infrastructure, including OCI and GCP, and data centers such as Hetzner and Servers.com • Experience with Confluent Kafka, BigQuery, Valkey, MySQL/PostgreSQL, HBase, or Google Pub/Sub • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or OpenTelemetry • Bonus: experience with Temporal, DBOS, or similar workflow platforms • Bonus: MLOps experience in model serving, performance monitoring, and drift detection • Bonus: familiarity with SPIRE, mTLS, Cilium, Istio, or Envoy • Bonus: track record of building CLIs, SDKs, or project generators • Bonus: familiarity with large-scale web data extraction • Bonus: open-source contributions in distributed systems or data extraction

🏖️ Benefits

• Freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work • Flexible working hours • Attend conferences • Meet with team members from across the globe • Work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools • Remote-first culture • High organizational trust

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