Staff Software Engineer - ML Feature Platform

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.

Who We Are

The Machine Learning Platform team at Reddit is a high-impact team that owns the infrastructure that powers recommendations content discovery user and content quantification while directly impacting other teams such as Growth Ads Feeds and Core Machine Learning teams.

What You’ll Do

As a Staff Software Engineer ML Feature Platform you will work on our Machine Learning Feature Platform Team and be instrumental in architecting implementing and maintaining foundational ML infrastructure used to compute store and retrieve features powering Feeds Ranking Content Understanding Recommendations Ads and much more to fulfill Reddit’s mission of bringing community and belonging to everyone in the world. You will build feature stores for online inference and model training tools that enable machine learning engineers (MLEs) and data scientists (DSs) to improve the ML feature software development lifecycle.

• Lead the building testing and maintenance of our ML Feature Store and Feature Engineering infrastructure at Reddit that serves 100 million+ redditors.

• Work with other engineers across ML Platform and Reddit infrastructure to significantly advance the ML Platform.

• Work with management on team goal setting planning and de-risk project execution

• Mentor other team members in adopting a rigorous DevOps approach to maintain and/or improve ML infra components and services health and quality

Who You Might Be

• 8+ years of work experience in a production software development environment

• Experience working on large-scale ML Systems serving 100s of millions of users

• Experience building feature stores and feature engineering infrastructure

• Experience building production-quality code incorporating testing evaluation and monitoring using object-oriented programming including experience in Python Scala and golang.

• Experience with Kubernetes

• Knowledge of maintaining or developing applications using large-scale open source data stack e.g Kafka Flink Cassandra Redis

• Comfortable with distributed systems big data (Petabyte scale) and data-intensive systems

• Strong organizational & communication skills

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k Match

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off

• Generous 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.

The base pay range for this position is:

$230000—$322000 USD