Senior Staff MLOps Engineer

About The Team

Grindr is an AI-native platform powering how millions of gay people connect globally. With 15M+ monthly users, 130B+ annual messages, and a team of fewer than 200, we move fast, stay lean, and tackle technical problems at a scale few companies ever see. We at Grindr believe that AI can revolutionize the dating industry. As a Staff MLOps Engineer, you will build and own the infrastructure, tooling, and scalable systems that make high-impact AI possible.

About The Job

Build and maintain end-to-end ML pipelines for data ingestion, feature computation, model training, validation, deployment, and inference, all at substantial scale of data.
Stand up and manage a feature store, ensuring feature consistency, lineage, and reuse across teams.
Expertise with best in class tools for managing deployment, scheduling, and environments and how to use them in the specialized regime of ML Infrastructure.
Develop automated model deployment workflows with CI/CD, safe rollout strategies, and reproducibility guarantees.
Implement monitoring and observability for ML systems, including data quality checks, drift detection, performance metrics, and alerting.
Build and support training environments with experiment tracking, distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, and artifact and environment management.
Collaborate with ML engineers and data engineers to streamline workflows, improve model iteration speed, and enforce MLOps best practices.
Ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability of ML systems through strong engineering and operational rigor.

Role Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 5+ years experience in MLOps, ML platform engineering, ML infrastructure, or similar roles.
• Strong experience building production ML pipelines and supporting end-to-end ML workflows.
• Excellent engineering fundamentals: Python, SQL, bash, Git.
• Experience with big data and distributed compute: Snowflake, Spark/pySpark, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm.
• Experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) sufficient to support training pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Ability to produce well-engineered, maintainable software with ss, documentation, and operational rigor.
• Experience with data quality frameworks, observability tooling, or experiment tracking systems.

Role Requirements (continued)

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 5+ years experience in MLOps, ML platform engineering, ML infrastructure, or similar roles.
• Strong experience building production ML pipelines and supporting end-to-end ML workflows.
• Excellent engineering fundamentals: Python, SQL, bash, Git.
• Experience with big data and distributed compute: Snowflake, Spark/pySpark, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm.
• Experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) sufficient to support training pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Ability to produce well-engineered, maintainable software with ss, documentation, and operational rigor.
• Experience with data quality frameworks, observability tooling, or experiment tracking systems.

Benefits And Perks

• Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
• Family Formation Up to $300,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
• Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
• Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
• Gender-Affirming Care : Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
• Time Off & Rest Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.
• Other Benefits: Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch

About Grindr

Grindr is building the Global Gayborhood in your Pocket. With more than 15 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the gay community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. As a public company, we're moving into the next chapter: becoming an AI-native organization that's redefining what's possible for our community. We're embedding AI into our product and operations, moving with startup speed while operating at scale. Everything we do is rooted in impact for our users and outcomes for the business. This isn't social work, it’s impact through excellence. Business success is what gives us the power to serve our community and the seat at tables others can't reach.

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