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:
We’re looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join our Feed Relevance team, which is responsible for the end-to-end systems that power personalization and ranking for the main Reddit feeds. This is a critical role that blends hands-on development with technical leadership, focusing on building scalable, extensible, and highly performant personalization systems. You will be instrumental in defining the technical direction for the team, collaborating closely with Product and Engineering leadership to set the strategy, and working with other individual contributors to execute and scale our systems to serve tens of millions of users. This work will directly enable our Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) and engineers to quickly iterate and continuously improve the user experience. You will also partner with Infra and Platform teams to inform the direction of our core infrastructure, building for the future of ML at Reddit.
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
Qualifications:
- 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.
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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