Software Engineer, Knowledge Graph Pipeline

Software Engineer

Diffbot runs one of the largest web-scale machine learning systems composed of many micro-services that perform crawling, rendering, natural language processing, computer vision, information extraction, and document analysis. The Software Engineer at Diffbot plays a critical role in advancing the efficiency and scalability of this machinery. Diffbot provides experienced software engineers an opportunity to work on web-scale machine learning problems while being part of a small high-impact team.

Responsibilities

• Measure, optimize, and architect high performance systems that run on hundreds of machines (cloud and custom-assembled hardware)
• Optimize machine learning software implementations and models to improve machine utilization and efficiency
• Resolve customer-facing issues and fix bugs
• Develop practices to enhance code quality and ease of maintenance

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in production Java software development
• Experience working in a Linux environment
• Experience with high quality code practices and testing
• Experience with software performance optimization
• Ability to learn and quickly ramp up on other coding languages as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Java software development
• Master’s, PhD degree, further education or experience in engineering, computer science or other technical related field.
• Applied machine learning experience
• Experience with designing and implementing production distributed systems
• Previous technical leadership role