Zalando

Senior Data/ML Engineer - Recommendations & Search

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to enhance Zalando’s recommendation and search ML systems, making them more scalable, efficient, and impactful. You will play a key role in productionizing ML models, optimizing pipelines, and ensuring seamless deployment of high-performing recommendations and search systems. Working closely with Data Scientists and Software Engineers, you will help shape the future of personalized shopping experiences for millions of customers.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Build and optimize ML pipelines for training, deploying, and monitoring recommendation and search models.
• Productionize ML models by orchestrating workflows (Apache Airflow) and deploying scalable, reliable solutions on AWS for real-time and batch inference.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance feature engineering, data pipelines, and model performance.
• Improve data quality and reliability for real-time and batch inference systems.

WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• 5+ years of experience in Spark, ML Ops, Data Engineering, AWS, Apache Airflow, Python.
• Proven experience productionizing ML models and orchestrating ML workflows.
• Experience with Databricks for scalable data processing and ML model training.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Bonus: Experience with feature stores and feature engineering pipelines.

PERKS AT WORK

• Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
• Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
• Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
• Relocation assistance for internationals

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

ABOUT ZALANDO

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 26 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

Zalando Research is an incubator for scientific experimentation and innovation, collaborating with industry partners and the greater academic community. With an emphasis on Machine Learning and AI, our research is derived from the daily challenges we face at Zalando Tech, putting the customer at the forefront of our thinking.

Recruiter

Shilpa Mishra

shilpa.mishra@zalando.de

Please note that all applications from this job page must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail. Once reviewed, our recruiters will contact applicants via an official Zalando email address (@zalando.de).

In some cases we also work with a selection of headhunters and agencies to fill specific roles. Please note that neither Zalando nor our recruiting partners will ask for any kind of payment to apply for a job or attend an interview.

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