Staff Software Engineer, ML Feature Platform

Reddit, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 322,000 - 452,000; Full time

Job summary

A major social media platform is looking for a Staff Software Engineer for the Machine Learning Feature Platform. In this role, you will architect key ML infrastructure that serves over 100 million users. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software development experience, expertise in ML systems, and knowledge of distributed systems. This position is fully remote with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Match

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation

Paid Volunteer Time Off

Qualifications

• 8+ years of work experience in a production software development environment.
• Experience building production-quality code incorporating testing, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Comfortable with big data (Petabyte scale) and data-intensive systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the building, testing, and maintenance of our ML Feature Store.
• Work with management on team goal setting, planning, and project execution.
• Mentor team members in adopting a rigorous DevOps approach.

Skills

Building production-quality code using Python

Experience with Kubernetes

Strong organizational & communication skills

Experience building feature stores

Experience with distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Cassandra

Redis

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, ML Feature Platform

Remote - United States

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com .

Location:This role iscompletely 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 aStaff Software Engineer, ML Feature Platform, you will work on our Machine Learning Feature Platform Teamand 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
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Paid Volunteer time off

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:

$230,000 - $322,000 USD

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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.

Reddit U.S. Equal Employment Information

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. To bring community and belonging to everyone in the world, Reddit’s employees must represent communities and redditors on our platform.

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