Lead Backend & MLOps Engineer

Join Buzz Solutions and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of energy and technology. If you are passionate about delivering exceptional customer support and thrive in a collaborative and innovative environment, we want to hear from you! Apply now to embark on an exciting journey with us. 

Responsibilities 

Strategic Leadership 

• Partner closely with engineering (software, data, and machine learning), product, and design leadership to define product-led growth strategy with an ownership-driven approach
• Establish best practices, frameworks, and repeatable processes to measure the impact of every feature shipped, taking initiative to identify and solve problems proactively
• Make effective tradeoffs considering business priorities, user experience, and sustainable technical foundation with a startup mindset focused on rapid iteration and results
• Develop and lead team execution against both short-term and long-term roadmaps, demonstrating self-starter qualities and end-to-end accountability
• Mentor and grow team members to be successful contributors while fostering an ownership culture and entrepreneurial thinking 

 Technical Development 

• Build and maintain backend systems and data pipelines for AI-based software platforms, integrating SQL/NoSQL databases and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance performance
• Design, deploy, and optimize cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform, including Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, and cost-effective scalable architecture
• Implement comprehensive MLOps workflows including model registry, deployment pipelines, monitoring systems for model drift, and CI/CD automation for ML-based backend services 
• Establish robust testing, monitoring, and security frameworks including unit/stress testing, vulnerability assessments, and customer usage analytics
• Drive technical excellence through documentation, code reviews, standardized practices, and strategic technology stack recommendations 

Qualifications & Experience 

Experience & Leadership 

• 8+ years of industry experience with modern systems development, ideally end to end pipelines and applications development
• Track record of shipping complex backend features end-to-end
• Ability to translate customer requirements into technical solutions 

Programming & Development 

• Strong programming and computer science fundamentals and quality standards
• Experience with Python and modern web frameworks (FastAPI) and Pydantic
• Experience designing, implementing, and debugging web technologies and server architecture
• Experience with modern python packaging and distribution (uv, poetry) 

System Architecture & Cloud 

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalable architecture
• Experience building reusable, modular systems that enable rapid development and easy modification
• Strong experience with data storage systems (PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, MongoDB)
• Expertise with queuing/streaming systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS)
• Expertise with workflow orchestration frameworks (Celery, Temporal, Airflow) and DAG-based processing
• Proficiency in utilizing and maintaining cloud infrastructure services (Google Cloud/AWS/Azure)
• Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and deployment
• Solid grasp of system design patterns and tradeoffs 

AI/ML & Data Pipelines 

• Experience and in-depth understanding of AI/ML systems integration
• Deep understanding of the ML Lifecyle
• Experience with big data technologies and data pipeline development
• Experience containerizing and deploying ML applications (Docker) for training and inference workloads
• Experience with real-time streaming and batch processing systems for ML model workflows
• Experience with vector databases and search systems for similarity search and embeddings 

Education 

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, OR
• Master's degree with 6+ years of experience 

About us 

Buzz Solutions safeguards the world’s energy infrastructure by providing AI-based actionable insights and predictive analytics for power line and energy infrastructure inspections. We are disrupting the power utility industry by providing automation for inspection and maintenance operations for infrastructure, using our AI-powered software platform, and are a venture-funded startup looking for great talent to share our vision of energy industry transformation. Our solutions and technology allows the utilities to reduce current inspection operation costs by at least 50%, prevent power outages, prevent wildfires and manage their assets in an effective way. You will be working with a talented, passionate and hardworking team of engineers and product/project managers to build end-to-end Machine Learning products and pipelines that will be deployed for our customers in order to prevent issues such as power outages, forced shutdowns, impact of climate change on the aging grid infrastructure and preventing wildfires.