Reddit is looking to solve the problem of consistently delivering highly personalized experiences to its users, with the goal of helping millions of users connect with their favorite content and discover new communities.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a machine learning engineer or software engineer developing backend / infrastructure at scale, using Go, Python, or any object oriented programming language
- 2+ years building data or model-serving pipelines at scale
- Experience working with recommender systems or other ML-driven products
- Familiar with software engineering best practices such as unit testing and code reviews, design, and documentation
- Skilled at diving into data to debug system performance and develop a deeper understanding of how users are engaging with the product; proficient with SQL and data analysis
Responsibilities
- Write efficient, scalable and maintainable code that will help consistently deliver highly personalized experiences to Reddit users
- Design and implement components of our recommender systems to adapt to user signals and optimize for long term user satisfaction; potentially including user targeting and segmentation, candidate retrieval, reinforcement learning, feature engineering, and prediction models
- Follow data-driven design principles to develop hypotheses, test them via well designed experiments, and analyze the results to learn and iterate
- Champion and drive engineering processes and best practices
- Collaborate across disciplines and with other ML teams at Reddit to find technical solutions to complex challenges
Other
- Passionate about building delightful products for users
- Entrepreneurial spirit. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You figure out what it takes to drive projects to success.
- Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
