Senior Software Engineer MLOps - Freelance (4054040)

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Key facts

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer MLOps - Freelance

Role type

Contract

Start date

Remote friendly

Location

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Salary

Negotiable €

Senior Software Engineer I - ML Production Platform

We are supporting a large, international online technology company that is building and operating a company‑wide machine learning inference platform. The platform enables teams across the organisation to run high‑throughput, low‑latency ML models reliably in production.

They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team responsible for the core backend services of this ML production platform.

The role

You will design, build and operate backend services that power online and offline ML predictions at scale. The role focuses on JVM‑based services running on Kubernetes in hybrid cloud environments, with a strong emphasis on performance, reliability and developer experience.

You will work closely with ML engineers, scientists and other engineering teams to ensure ML models can be served safely, efficiently and consistently across the organisation.

Responsibilities

Design, implement and operate scalable, low‑latency backend services using Java and/or Scala
Build and maintain distributed systems and APIs for online and offline ML predictions
Profile and optimise CPU and memory usage, run benchmarks and capacity experiments
Run production services on Kubernetes (on‑prem and managed cloud environments)
Own cron‑based and scheduled workloads such as batch processing and maintenance jobs
Implement and maintain observability using metrics, logs, dashboards and alerts
Participate in on‑call rotations and incident response, including root‑cause analysis
Collaborate with ML practitioners and product teams to translate requirements into platform capabilities

Requirements

Strong experience as a backend or software engineer building production services
Solid programming skills in Java, Scala or another JVM‑based language
Experience designing and operating distributed systems
Hands‑on experience running services on Kubernetes
Good understanding of performance tuning, profiling and capacity planning
Experience working in Linux and cloud‑based environments
Comfortable collaborating with engineers, ML practitioners and product stakeholders

Practical

Only open to freelance (ZZP or BV) no sponsorship or permanent
Amsterdam based (Hybrod working)
40 hours per week
12 month contract

Interested? Reply with your CV and contactdetails before Monday 12:00 to be considered for the role

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