Reddit is looking to hire a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join their Feed Relevance team. This role is critical for building scalable, extensible, and highly performant personalization systems that power the main Reddit feeds, serving tens of millions of users. The engineer will define technical direction, set strategy, and execute on initiatives to improve user experience and scale ML systems.
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
- Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability and quality.
- You have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact with software at scale.
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
- building scalable, extensible, and highly performant personalization systems
- partner with Infra and Platform teams to inform the direction of our core infrastructure, building for the future of ML at Reddit
Other
- This role is [completely remote-friendly]
- Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences.
- High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.
- 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.
