Software Engineer Graduate (MLOps) - 2027 Start

San Jose, California, US Until 10/3/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted August 4, 2026 Last posted August 4, 2026
Job description

Description

The monetization technology team works on building and running large-scale, globally distributed, fault-tolerant ads systems. SREs keep the systems up and running with the highest level of availability, ensuring our users have the best experience possible.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities:
- Define and drive Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for online machine learning inference systems, ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale production inference services.
- Ensure the reliability and operational excellence of offline machine learning training pipelines, continuously improving training job success rates
- Drive infrastructure capacity planning and resource management for machine learning workloads, ensuring compute resources meet evolving business demands while continuously improving GPU and CPU utilization through performance optimization.
- Lead the enablement of new machine learning frameworks and GPU platforms, driving large-scale production deployment while maintaining model quality and business performance.
- Design, build, and maintain MLOps platforms and automation tools, including quota management, job diagnostics, monitoring and observability, resource management, and operational tooling.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Expertise in Linux operating systems, networking, storage.
- Experience programming in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Go, C, C++, or Java.
- Experience in troubleshooting application issues, or production operations.
- Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in SRE of machine learning systems.
- Experience in SRE of ads/recommendation/search systems.

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About this role

Summary

Assist in building and maintaining large-scale machine learning infrastructure and MLOps platforms.

Job title

Software Engineer Graduate (MLOps) - 2027 Start

Experience level

entry level

Industry

technology

Location requirements

San Jose, California, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

LinuxPythonGoCC++troubleshootingcommunication

Preferred skills

SREmachine learning systemsads systemsrecommendation systems

Specializations

ML systemsMLOpsinfrastructureGPUautomation
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

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