Full-Time

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

dLocal

dLocal

1,001-5,000 employees

Cross-border payments platform for merchants

No salary listed

Madrid, Spain

Hybrid

Category
AI & Machine Learning (1)
Required Skills
MLOps
Apache Spark
Apache Kafka
Kinesis
opentelemetry
Observability
DevOps
Databricks
Requirements
  • Solid experience as a Senior Engineer working on MLOps, data platforms, or large-scale backend / distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with big data / streaming technologies (e.g. Spark, Flink, Kafka, Kinesis, or similar).
  • Proven track record building production-grade ML pipelines: Experiment tracking and reproducible training flows; CI/CD for models and data pipelines; Online and batch inference at scale.
  • Familiarity with cloud-based ML platforms and containerized deployments (e.g. Databricks, SageMaker, Vertex AI, or equivalent).
  • Strong understanding of observability: Metrics, logs and traces; Data and model drift, freshness and quality checks; Ability to write clean, maintainable code and collaborate through reviews, design docs and pairing sessions.
  • Comfortable communicating with Data Scientists, ML Engineers and Infra/SRE, translating requirements into concrete technical solutions.
Responsibilities
  • Building and evolving the Feature Store: Implement and maintain online and offline feature pipelines that feed our enterprise Feature Store, combining Flink-based streaming jobs ingesting large volumes of events from multiple sources into online stores; Databricks / Spark pipelines for offline feature computation, backfills and training datasets; Ensure point-in-time correctness for offline training and backtesting; Low-latency, high-throughput online feature serving with clear SLAs, TTL semantics and multi-tenant safety; Contribute to the feature catalog and specs: Define entities, feature views, schemas, SLAs, PII classification and owners; Help data scientists and domain teams onboard new features safely and consistently across Flink and Databricks; Develop tooling for backfills and materialization coordination between Flink and Databricks (Lakehouse / Delta); Offline–online parity checks, data quality, drift and freshness monitoring for critical feature groups; Unified feature retrieval APIs (online/offline/batch) and SDK/CLI usage from models and services.
  • MLOps platform implementation (training, serving, observability): Implement and improve training and evaluation pipelines: Reproducible workflows, experiment tracking and model registry integration; Promotion flows from dev → staging → production, following platform standards; Work on online and batch inference paths: Model packaging and deployment; Rollout strategies (canary, shadow, rollback) aligned with SRE/Infra; Instrument pipelines and services with metrics, logs and traces: Integrate with our observability stack (e.g. OTel, Coralogix); Expose dashboards and alerts for ML components (latency, errors, drift, freshness).
  • AI-assisted automation for MLOps and Feature Store: Integrate and extend agents and AI services to automate key parts of the Feature Store and MLOps workflows (health checks, drift and quality analysis, documentation/specs, incident triage, FinOps suggestions, etc.); Design these automations with clear guardrails: observable, auditable and easy to roll back, always keeping humans in control of production decisions.
  • Reliability, security and compliance in practice: Implement changes that respect platform standards around: Access control, secrets management and PII handling in features and models; Environment separation and change management for ML/AI components; Participate in on-call rotations or escalation paths for ML pipelines and feature infrastructure: Diagnose and fix incidents; Contribute improvements to playbooks, dashboards and tests.
  • Collaboration and technical contribution: Work closely with MLOps Technical Referent to align on architecture and technical direction; Data Science squads and the AI Team to understand requirements and unblock use cases; Fraud, Anomaly and other product squads as consumers of features and models; Contribute to internal documentation, RFCs, examples and onboarding guides so other engineers and data scientists can adopt the platform more easily; Mentor mid-level engineers on good practices in pipelines, testing, observability and automation.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience working with or around Feature Stores (Feast, Databricks Feature Store, custom implementations, etc).
  • Exposure to LLMs, agents and AI assistants, especially applied to Developer productivity (code/infra copilots), Log/metric/incident analysis or documentation generation.
  • Experience in Fintech, risk, fraud or anomaly detection environments.
  • Contributions to internal standards, RFCs, runbooks or technical talks.

dLocal is a financial technology company that provides cross-border payment solutions for global merchants, especially in emerging markets. It enables pay-ins (accepting online payments) and pay-outs (issuing refunds) through multiple routes using local payment methods and regional compliance. By connecting international businesses with consumers in growing markets, dLocal helps merchants expand globally while meeting local regulations and handling transaction fees. The company differentiates itself by focusing on emerging economies, offering a broad set of local payment options, and ensuring regulatory compliance to enable seamless, borderless transactions. Its goal is to bridge the payments innovation gap between global brands and emerging markets, supporting international growth for its clients.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Founded

2016

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • APAC cross-border commerce exceeds $4T by 2028 via Damisa partnership.
  • Global remittances hit $270B by 2032 powered by National Exchange integration.
  • Revenue crossed $1.09B in 2025 with 25.7% CAGR to $1.7B by 2028.

What critics are saying

  • Top-3 client cuts 20% volume, slashing 8-12% revenue in 6-12 months.
  • Brazil PIX adoption reaches 90% by 2027, collapsing LATAM payout margins.
  • Nigeria, Egypt central banks mandate local licensing, forcing exit from 25% TAM in 18-36 months.

What makes dLocal unique

  • dLocal offers single API for 1000+ local payment methods across 44 emerging markets.
  • Handles fragmented ecosystems with pay-in, pay-out, marketplace, and B2B invoicing products.
  • Simplifies cross-border FX, compliance, and fraud mitigation exclusively in global south.

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