Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Ranking Platform

Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. At Reddit, ML Ranking Platform is the brain behind how millions of people discover content every day. ML Ranking Platform powers 40+ 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. We provide Product Engineers and ML Modeling Engineers with a platform to develop the ranking, recommendation and personalization products to delight, engage and retain Reddit users.  HOW YOU'LL HAVE IMPACT As a Senior Software Engineer, ML Ranking Platform, you will design, implement and maintain highly robust, scalable, reliable and performant ranking systems that power personalized feeds, search, and other products at Reddit scale. You’ll drive and deliver high-impact projects, building the ranking engines that orchestrate workflows for a reliable and performant ML-based system. Your work not only powers Reddit feeds; it’ll also shape how communities connect, grow, and thrive across Reddit! * Design and implement the next generation ML ranking system that powers the personalized feeds, search and other products at Reddit * Design and develop ML and Generative AI systems in cloud-based production environments at scale * Partner closely with Product, Infrastructure and Engineering teams and translate requirements into scalable ML systems  * Write efficient, scalable and maintainable code that will help us iterate quickly and safely * Champion and drive engineering processes and best practices * Raise the bar for engineering across the team through code reviews, mentorship and knowledge sharing WHO YOU MIGHT HAVE: * 5+ 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 * 5+ years of experience with designing and implementing large-scale performant and reliable machine learning systems. Experience with recommendation systems is preferred.  * Experience with developing and improving tools such as deployment, automation, system diagnosis, ML monitoring etc.  * 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 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  #LI-Remote 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 salary 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. The base salary range for this position is: $216,700—$303,400 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors. 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.

Senior Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Indexing & Retrieval Search

Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. Team The ML Indexing & Retrieval Platform team at Reddit is responsible for building and scaling the core infrastructure that powers machine learning driven recommendations. We design and maintain systems for ML data ingestion, low-latency retrieval services, and end-to-end lifecycle management of data. With a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability, we enable real-time access to high-quality data that supports a wide range of applications, including Content Understanding, Semantic, Lexical retrieval & GenAI applications.  HOW YOU'LL HAVE IMPACT You’ll lead the development of next-generation ML Indexing & Retrieval systems, owning the full lifecycle from ideation to production and going beyond incremental improvements to reimagine core platform capabilities. As part of a high-impact, cross-functional team, you’ll solve complex technical challenges to build scalable, reliable platforms that empower developers to efficiently ship critical ML features. Languages: Go, Java, Python, or any object oriented programming language Frameworks: Flink, Airflow, Spark for large scale batch & stream processing  Databases: Familiarity with Vector, Lexical & Key-Value Databases  Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP WHAT YOU’LL DO * Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and implementation of Reddit’s next-generation ML Indexing & Retrieval engine, integrating capabilities across lexical and vector indexing, low-latency retrieval, and emerging GenAI applications. * Partner closely with product engineers across Content Understanding, Search, Feeds, Ads, Growth, and Safety to deliver high-quality experiences. * Define best practices for observability, reliability, and operational excellence in large-scale distributed systems. * Mentor and guide engineers in designing scalable infrastructure and adopting robust DevOps and SRE principles. * Collaborate with infrastructure, and ML teams to ensure the platform evolves to meet the needs of Reddit’s growing user base and diverse content ecosystem. WHO YOU MIGHT BE: * 10+ years of experience in software engineering, specializing in Indexing and Retrieval systems. * 3+ years in technical leadership, architecting and scaling distributed systems in production environments. * Deep expertise in large-scale data platforms, including batch indexing and stream processing. * Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, low-latency retrieval services. * Expertise in lexical and vector search retrieval technologies, such as Milvus, Vespa, or Elasticsearch.  * Skilled in designing cloud-native architectures and managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes and AWS/GCP. * Adept at translating complex technical challenges into clear, actionable strategies. * Strong communicator and mentor who leads through collaboration, influence, and technical excellence. 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  #LI-Remote 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 salary 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. The base salary range for this position is: $279,200—$390,900 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors. 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.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. At Reddit, machine learning sits at the heart of how millions of people discover, connect, and engage with the world’s largest collection of human conversations. From powering personalized recommendations and search to optimizing advertising systems and marketplace dynamics, our ML engineers tackle some of the most interesting and impactful problems in large-scale applied machine learning. We hire Machine Learning Engineers across both our Consumer and Ads organizations, giving you the opportunity to work on a wide range of high-impact problems across the Reddit ecosystem. We are looking for Machine Learning Engineers who are excited to build systems end-to-end, from research and modeling to production deployment, — and who want to help shape the future of discovery, relevance, and monetization at Reddit. If you love working on complex, real-world ML problems at massive scale, this role is for you. What You’ll Work On As a Machine Learning Engineer at Reddit, you will design and build production ML systems that power core experiences across the platform, including: * Personalized recommendations, search, and ranking systems that help users discover the most relevant content and communities * Intelligent advertising systems including ranking, bidding, measurement, and optimization * Content, Advertisers, and User understanding, from building foundational content/user representations to deriving insightful signals * Large-scale machine learning pipelines, model serving infrastructure, and real-time decision systems * Applied AI and LLM-driven experiences that improve relevance, discovery, and user engagement You’ll work on high-impact systems that operate at internet scale and directly influence user experience, advertiser value, and business outcomes. What You’ll Do * Design, build, and deploy production-grade machine learning models and systems at scale * Own the full ML lifecycle: from problem definition and feature engineering to training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring * Build scalable data and model pipelines with strong reliability, observability, and automated retraining * Work with large-scale datasets to improve ranking, recommendations, search relevance, prediction, content/user understanding, and optimization systems.  * Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to translate complex problems into ML solutions * Improve system performance across latency, throughput, and model quality metrics * Research and apply state-of-the-art machine learning and AI techniques, including deep learning, graph & transformers based, and LLM evaluation/alignment  * Contribute to technical strategy, architecture, and long-term ML roadmap Basic Qualifications * 3-5+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating machine learning systems in production * Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Go, or similar languages, with solid software engineering fundamentals * ML Fundamentals: a strong grasp of algorithms, from classic statistical learning (XGBoost, Random Forests, regressions) to DL architectures (Transformers, CNNs, GNNs) * Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) * Experience designing scalable ML pipelines, data processing systems, and model serving infrastructure * Ability to work cross-functionally and translate ambiguous product or business problems into technical solutions * Experience improving measurable metrics through applied machine learning Preferred Qualifications * Experience with recommender systems, search/ranking systems, advertising/auction systems, large-scale representation learning, or multimodal embedding systems * Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale data processing (Spark, Kafka, Ray, Airflow, BigQuery, Redis, etc.) * Experience working with real-time systems and low-latency production environments * Background in feature engineering, model optimization, and production monitoring * Experience with LLM/Gen AI techniques, including but not limited to LLM evaluation, alignment, fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, RAG/agentic systems and productionizing LLM-powered products at scale * Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related quantitative field Potential Teams * Ads Measurement Modeling  * Ads Targeting and Retrieval * Advertiser Optimization * Ads Marketplace Quality * Ads Creative Effectiveness * Ads Foundational Representations * Ads Content Understanding * Ads Ranking * Feed Relevance * Search and Answers Relevance * ML Understanding * Notifications Relevance 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  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 salary 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. The base salary range for this position is: $216,700—$303,400 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors. 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.