About The Position
Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join its Feed Relevance team. This team is responsible for the end-to-end systems that power personalization and ranking for Reddit's main feeds. The role involves hands-on development and technical leadership, focusing on building scalable, extensible, and highly performant personalization systems. The engineer will help define the team's technical direction, collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership on strategy, and work with other individual contributors to scale systems for millions of users. This role will also partner with Infra and Platform teams to influence the direction of core infrastructure for ML at Reddit.
Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products
- Subject matter expert in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems; able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can
- Deep understanding of how to build sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization
- Experience in influencing organizations on technical direction/best practices
- Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences.
- Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact with software at scale.
- High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org
Responsibilities
- Deliver on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact
- Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy across multiple orgs
- Work with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects
- Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers
- Create a strong healthy engineering culture
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- equity in the form of restricted stock units
- commission
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- generous time off for vacation
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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