Staff Software Engineer, Search Relevance

Generating billions of events and terabytes of data a day, we’re in the unique position to revolutionize content discovery on the internet. We are overhauling Reddit’s search and relevancy infrastructure as we unleash the value of an exponentially growing petabyte-scale dataset. You'd leverage state of the art technology to lead this effort from the ground level, empowering our extremely diverse user-base to find the communities and content that make them feel at home, while delivering highly personalized experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement the search infrastructure at Reddit.
• Participate in the full development cycle: design, develop, qa, experiment, analyze, and deploy.
• Collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.
• Identify and surface the best discussions and content across some of the Internet’s largest communities
• Dig into how Reddit’s customer behavior is unique and go beyond generic relevance algorithms.
• Experiment, improve, and optimize search results to empower Reddit’s users.
• Work closely with partner teams to help drive search as a platform and power products across the engineering organization

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience as a Search, Data, or Software Engineer developing production code.
• Strong understanding of search and relevance techniques
• Experience with Solr, Elasticsearch or similar technologies
• Experience with setting up, maintaining, and debugging production systems and infrastructure
• Results-oriented with a strong customer and business focus.
• Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.

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