Company Description

Who we are:

At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for job seekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match, in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.

Join our team of 4,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job-tech platform.

Job Description

The job at a glance:

The three teams in our streamlined squad are currently working on several LLM-based use-cases to serve jobseekers better fitting jobs and recruiters better fitting talents via semantic search. We are using inhouse-tuned LLMs that we deploy on AWS together with Vector DBs to support retrieval.

This exciting role will be about managing AWS accounts and infrastructure to host our systems for LLM-inference, including advanced RAG. To this end you will collaborate tightly with Data Scientists, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Software Engineers in a Scrum environment. You can support streamlining deployment and establish best practices in infrastructure management for large models to build a better future where a new job is just a click away.

Your responsibilities:

Join our team as a Platform Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the infrastructure of our LLM-based services. Your expertise will be instrumental in designing and implementing scalable Vector Database solutions to power our self-hosted LLM-based services. As a strategic liaison between our central IaaS teams and business units, you will ensure seamless collaboration and knowledge sharing, driving process improvements and efficiencies.

You will spearhead the setup and administration of newly created AWS accounts, ensuring efficient resource allocation and management. By streamlining LLM-Operations, you will empower two teams in our business to focus on their core objectives. Effective communication is key in this role, as you will need to explain complex cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering a culture of transparency and collaboration.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a direct impact on the experience of jobseekers and recruiters, and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge search and recommender system. We're looking for a seasoned Platform Engineer who is passionate about driving efficiency, scalability, and innovation in cloud infrastructure. If you're a collaborative problem-solver with a growth mindset and a track record of elevating processes and standards, we'd love to hear from you!

Qualifications

Your skills and qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Operations, Data Engineering, or a related field, with a strong team player mindset and a sense of ownership
• High proficiency in AWS administration, IaC (Terraform), CI/CD, and test automation best practices, with experience in setting up compute, storage, and service infrastructure
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, including VPC, Route53, and IAM permission management
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (Master's degree preferred)
• Nice to have: experience with LLMs, Vector Databases, AWS EMR, Spark, and Python

Additional Information

Benefits and Rewards:

• Your start at StepStone: We want you to feel comfortable right from the get-go and you can begin networking immediately. That's why we always start with an onboarding event lasting several days, during which you get to know your new colleagues, our products and our culture. After that, the onboarding continues in your department - with several weeks of individual training. 
• We support you: We want you to become part of the StepStone family as quickly as possible! That is why we will support you with all the formalities during the visa process.
• Your further development: We are growing - and of course we want you to grow with us. We will support you with targeted training that will help you develop both personally and professionally. 
• Big player with start-up flair: Even though we've grown quite a bit, we haven't lost our laidback attitude from the early days. In concrete terms, this means that we are on a first-name basis, we have short communication channels, flat hierarchies and super helpful colleagues. 
• Social Days: Talk is silver, action is golden - which is exactly why all our employees have 2 Social Days a year. These can be used flexibly for social and sustainable commitment. And the best thing about it: you don't have to take any holidays. 
• Holidays: While we're on the subject of holidays ... We offer 30 days of paid leave per year plus one customary day. And we always have Christmas and New Year's Eve off. 
• Our location? At the Medienhafen! For you that means we're easy to reach - whether by car, train or bike. By the way: We sponsor 50% of your parking space or job ticket. 
• Job-bike: And we also have good news for all cyclists: with our Job-bike offer, we support you in getting to the office quickly and sustainably. 
• Mobile Office: This is also possible with us! As a general rule, we offer two days of remote working per week. Feel free to ask directly during the interview to find out what the policy is for your role. 
• Are you into fitness? Great! Whether it's in our own fitness studio, playing beach volleyball or running, you can keep fit with our wide range of sporting activities. 
• Fancy a coffee? Then take a look at our in-house baristas. Whether Caramello, Cortado or Flat White lactose-free - everything is brewed fresh and free of charge. Speaking of fresh, of course, we also serve fresh fruit every day. 
• Our in-house post office: Standing in line isn't your thing? Then simply have your parcels delivered to the office. 
• Even more benefits: Christmas party, summer party, team events, incentive trips, subsidization on our company pension scheme and great offers at wholesale rates (e.g. for mobile phone contracts, Sixt and hotel bookings with HRS) - our list is long. There's bound to be something for you too! 

Our commitment:

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.