Senior ML Engineer

📋 Job Overview

CloudLinux is a global remote-first company driven by principles of doing the right thing, prioritizing employees, and delivering high-volume, low-cost Linux infrastructure and security products. We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our team and work on the development and improvement of our email security technology, specifically the Imunify Email product.

🏢 About CloudLinux

CloudLinux Inc. develops the Imunify family of security products, designed to protect hosting environments from a wide range of cyber threats. One of these solutions is Imunify Email, an email security product that protects hosting servers against spam, phishing, and other email-based threats.

🎯 The Role

We are replacing our existing rspamd-based filter with a transformer that runs on the customer's own CPU in under 100 MB and already outperforms rspamd. You will work alongside the engineer currently responsible for both the existing spam-filtering pipeline and the new ML model to drive the development, improvement, and production rollout of our email security technology.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Train, evaluate, and release spam-detection models: build the corpus, pick the threshold, read the precision/recall report, decide ship or retrain.
• Build the production side of the new engine in Go: the inference service, the mail-filter integration, the tokenizer, the streaming message parser.
• Fix detection quality end to end, from a customer's "this phishing got through" to a rule, a corpus fix, or a retrain, with the false-positive cost weighed against the catch.
• Keep the corpus tooling and training infrastructure running.
• Review and approve classifier, rule, and model changes, so no release waits on one person.
• Answer partner engineers who ask why a message scored the way it did.
• Write specs, handbooks, and post-mortems. That is how this team transfers knowledge.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of shipping detection or classification systems where false positives have a cost you had to defend: anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-malware, fraud, abuse.
• You have taken at least one ML classifier to production yourself: corpus construction, threshold selection, error analysis.
• Hands-on transformer training in PyTorch: tokenizers, masked-language pre-training, fine-tuning, ONNX export, CPU inference measurement.
• Linux, shell, and Python on shared servers and a shared GPU.
• Daily usage of AI coding agents and tools.
• English at upper-Intermediate (B2) level or higher, with particularly strong written communication skills for technical documentation, specifications, and code reviews. Your specs and merge-request descriptions count as much as your code.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Email internals: SMTP, MIME, transfer encodings, SPF / DKIM / DMARC, how Exim, Postfix, and Dovecot handle mail to a filter.
• Experience in creating embedded models
• Go or Rust for systems code: parsers, streaming, memory budgets, concurrency.
• rspamd or SpamAssassin internals: rules, composites, Lua plugins, mass-check scoring.
• Multi-million-sample corpora, labelling pipelines, annotator tooling.
• Small models for constrained hardware: quantization, distillation, latency budgets.
• LLM-based labelers or validators for scaling annotation.
• Hosting panels: cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin.

🎁 Benefits

• A focus on professional development.
• Interesting and challenging projects.
• Fully remote work with flexible working hours, that allows you to schedule your day and work from any location worldwide.
• Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves.
• Compensation for private medical insurance.
• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
• Budget for education.
• The opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.