Staff Software Engineer - ML Search

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: The Search & Recommendation Relevance team focuses on delivering the most relevant results when users search for anything on Reddit. Our systems and algorithms operate on the world's largest corpus of human conversation showcasing the best answers and diverse opinions from all across Reddit on any topics -  whether it's recommendations for the best hiking trail travel advice or reviews of the next product or restaurant. To achieve this our Search Recommendation systems need to be built for maintainability scalability and low latency in mind.

As a Staff Software Engineer ML Search you’ll build backend and pipeline systems that turn models into real search experiences for 110M+ daily users owning data flows ranking and retrieval services and low-latency model-serving APIs. You’ll integrate models into production through robust interfaces and DAGs enabling fast iteration and powering discovery across the internet’s largest community platform.

Responsibilities:

• Own pipelines and DAGs that move data features embeddings and models through the ML lifecycle

• Design/maintain ranking and retrieval services that run models in real-time

• Build scalable model-serving APIs ensuring reliability efficiency and performance

• Create reusable infrastructure that other MLEs depend on to train deploy and iterate on models

• Ensure pipelines and systems support high scale low latency and operational excellence

• Enable modeling with better systems features and deployment pathways

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of industry experience with a focus on search and recommendation systems.

• 6+ years of  experience in designing building and iterating large-scale search relevance and infrastructure systems handling end-to-end system development.

• Proven track record in delivering large and complex systems with big business impacts.

• Knowledge and experience working with search systems (e.g. Lucene Solr ElasticSearch Opensearch etc.).

• Demonstrated expertise at cross-functional collaboration - successfully shipped several large-scale projects with complex dependencies across teams.

• Proficient in object-oriented programming (Python Golang).

• Experience in API design and integration with GraphQL REST HTTP Thrift or gRPC.

• Experience of developing applications using large-scale data stack - e.g. Kubeflow Airflow BigQuery Kafka Kubernetes Redis etc.

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.

The base pay range for this position is:

$23000—$322000 USD