Staff ML Software Engineer - Ads Targeting

Job Description

Our mission is to leverage state of the art machine learning and data science techniques to allow advertisers effectively reach hundred millions of twitter users who resonate with their business, in a way that protects the integrity of their brand.

This includes applying machine learning techniques to both user modeling and content modeling: examples include inferring user demographics and interests, predicting the probability a user will engage with an ad, and topic modeling for mixed-media containing text, image, and videos! For every ad shown on Twitter, our prediction systems evaluate thousands of ad candidates behind the scene to find the best one. When executed successfully, we create aha! moments for our users & advertisers and add huge value to the Twitter business & revenue.

• Machine Learning apply machine learning and data mining techniques for a variety of modeling and relevance problems involving users, their tweets, their interests, twitter ads, relationship among entities. Be a key contributor to Twitter’s continued use of cutting edge machine learning in all aspects of our solutions. Help guide and mentor this rapidly changing space that helps our users get the right message from their favorite brands and just the right time.
• Infrastructure Work with our infrastructure teams to contribute to solutions, crack tough problems and mentor engineers on a highly scalable machine learning systems
• Apply your expertise in distributed systems and machine learning to simplify the immense complexity of wrangling with humongous amounts of underlying data, enabling Twitter to deliver more value to our partners.
• Products Work cross functionally with our product management team to build new solutions for Advertisers, and prove via experimentation that they deliver value to them
• Graph Algorithms: Work on graph algorithms to help improve our foundational identity matching platform

Qualifications

You're someone with a lot of experience and a number of successes in your past including Machine Learning and distributed systems design, but now are looking to grow with and help impact a global at scale business. You want to engage in significant projects while working in small teams of highly-talented, passionate engineers to show the team how to model code ownership, collaboration and most importantly - team health. The prospect of getting to work with an open-source tech stack that powers a solution people around the world love to use, and where massive volumes of data are extracted in real time excites you. You want to mentor amazing engineers; but you are also learning and want to see continued investment in you by the business; and you expect excellence in everything. You see your future self as a force multiplier (and not just a great technical resource for an employer). You see challenges as opportunities and you're looking to jump ahead of the pack in your career. You're applying to this role because you're hoping for a chance to jump in and see what you can do to make a difference in an iconic software company.

• 3+ years industry experience with a Bachelors, MS or PhD in computer science, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, recommendation systems, math, engineering, operations research, or other quantitative discipline; or equivalent work experience
• Experience with adtech ecosystem
• Experience with applying machine learning to production systems
• Backend development experience with a strong interest in work involving data pipelines, distributed systems, performance analysis, and/or large-scale data processing (ideally, in Java)
• Experience with software engineering practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
• Strong algorithms and data structures background
• Experience designing fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Experience with Hadoop or other MapReduce-based architectures
• ​Experience with Streaming Compute based technologies
• Experience with Cassandra, Redis, Memcached or MySQL

Additional Information

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.