Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer I – ML Production Platform
Amsterdam, Netherlands (Hybrid)

Long-term contract | 12 months

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join a high-impact ML Production team building the core backend services powering machine learning inference at massive scale.
You’ll work on highly available, low-latency distributed systems used across the organisation, helping modernise infrastructure toward a cloud-native and hybrid Kubernetes environment.
What you’ll be doing

• Design and build scalable backend services using Java/Scala and JVM technologies
• Develop and operate distributed microservices and APIs for ML serving platforms
• Work with Kubernetes (AWS EKS/on-prem) including deployments, autoscaling, rollbacks and container orchestration
• Improve system performance, reliability and observability using Grafana, Graphite and monitoring tooling
• Build CI/CD pipelines and production-grade cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with ML Engineers, Platform teams and Product stakeholders
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis and reliability improvements

What we’re looking for:
5+ years of backend/software engineering experience
Strong Java and/or Scala experience
Strong Kubernetes & cloud-native engineering background
Experience building distributed systems / microservices
AWS and Linux environment experience
Observability & monitoring experience (Grafana/Prometheus/Graphite etc.)
CI/CD and production systems ownership mindset

Advantageous to have:
ML platform or model-serving experience
Spark or distributed data processing exposure
SRE / platform engineering background
Hybrid cloud infrastructure experience
If you’re interested in building large-scale backend systems powering ML infrastructure in one of Europe’s leading tech environments, feel free to connect or message me directly.