Reddit, Inc. · 8 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, ML Search
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$230K/yr - $322K/yr
8+ years expReddit is a community of communities, known for its open and authentic conversations online. As a Staff Software Engineer in ML Search, you will build backend and pipeline systems that enhance search experiences for over 110 million daily users, focusing on data flows, ranking, retrieval services, and low-latency model-serving APIs.
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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
Qualification
Required
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 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
Company
Reddit, Inc.
Reddit is the heart of the internet, where millions of people get together to talk about any topic imaginable.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$1.33BKey Investors
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2024-03-21IPO
2021-08-12Series F· $410M
2021-02-08Series E· $367.95M
Leadership Team
Steve Huffman
CEO
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CTO
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