Location:
This role is completely remote-friendly. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.
Team Description:
At Reddit, ML Ranking Platform is the brain behind how millions of people discover content every day. ML Ranking Platform powers 30+ Reddit products including home feed, search, subreddit feeds, push notifications and others. It runs a scatter-gather ranking orchestration service that coordinates contextualized and personalized ranking on Reddit.
What You’ll Do:
As a Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Ranking Platform you will set and lead the technical vision for designing highly robust, scalable, reliable and performant ranking systems that power personalized feeds at Reddit scale. You’ll drive strategy, lead high-impact projects, and mentor teams building the ranking engines that balance speed, relevance, and reliability. Your work not only powers Reddit feeds; it’ll also shape how communities connect, grow, and thrive across Reddit!
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement the next generation backend ML systems that power the personalized feeds, search and other products on Reddit
- Work closely with ML engineers to design and implement scalable interfaces
- Explore new technologies that help grow our ML systems capabilities
- Champion and drive engineering processes and best practices
- Write efficient, scalable and maintainable code that will help us iterate quickly and safely
- Mentor and guide senior and mid-level ML engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and knowledge sharing.
- Drive technical discussions, present findings to leadership, and contribute to long-term ML planning and decision-making.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer developing large-scale distributed systems and data intensive ML based system, using Go, Python, C++ or any object oriented programming language
- Experience with developing and improving tools such as deployment, automation, system diagnosis, reproducibility, ML monitoring etc.
- Experience designing and implementing performant, stable, and efficient machine learning systems.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule with a strong attention to detail
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
- Familiar with software engineering best practices such as unit testing and code reviews, design, and documentation
- Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure
- Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
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Reddit Santa Monica, California, USA Office
2403 Main Street, Santa Monica, California, United States, 90405
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