Senior Engineering Manager, Unified Embeddings Platform

Reddit, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 266,000 - 372,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

Income Replacement Programs

401(k) with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender‑Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid VolunteerTime

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Unified Embeddings Platform. You will lead the Embeddings Platform Team and architect and maintain a scalable ML feature platform powering recommendations and discovery across Reddit.

You will mentor engineers and DSs, drive long-term platform evolution, champion best practices for production ML features, and partner with product and stakeholders to align strategy with company goals.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of people management experience.
• 8+ years in a production software development environment.
• Strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and ease of use for platform users.
• Experience with large-scale ML systems serving hundreds of millions of users.
• Experience building a self-service platform enabling storage and sharing of large-scale data and embeddings.
• Experience leading modelling teams powering the creation of foundational embeddings.
• Strong organizational & communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation of foundational embeddings at Reddit leveraging state-of-the-art architectures such as graph neural networks and transformer-based models.
• Design and evolve Reddit’s Embeddings platform to enable ML teams to access, store, and share embeddings.
• Drive high-impact projects aligned with Reddit’s engineering and business goals.
• Build and grow a high-performing team, including hiring, mentoring, and cultivating technical excellence.
• Establish and champion best practices for production, consumption, and governance of ML features.
• Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to align team plans with company goals.
• Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

People management

Production software

Scalability

Reliability

Performance

Machine learning lifecycle

Communication skills

Job description

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Who We Are

The Machine Learning Platform team at Reddit is a high‑impact team that owns the foundational embeddings and 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 Senior Engineering Manager, Unified Embeddings Platform, you will lead our Embeddings Platform Team and be instrumental in architecting, implementing, and maintaining a platform providing foundational ML embeddings based on state‑of‑the‑art architectures such as large‑scale graph neural networks, foundational models, large‑scale sequence models, etc. You will empower all product verticals at Reddit to fulfill the company’s mission of bringing community and belonging to everyone in the world. You’ll partner with teams across Reddit infrastructure and ML modelling to enable machine learning engineers (MLEs) and data scientists (DSs) to improve the ML feature software development lifecycle.

• Lead the creation of foundational embeddings at Reddit leveraging state‑of‑the‑art architectures such as graph neural networks, transformer‑based sequence models, foundational models, etc.
• Lead the design and long‑term evolution of Reddit’s Embeddings platform enabling all ML teams to access, store, and share embeddings.
• Drive high‑impact, high‑leverage projects that align with Reddit’s broader engineering and business goals.
• Build and grow a high‑performing team, including hiring, mentoring, and creating a culture of technical excellence.
• Establish and champion best practices for the production, consumption, and governance of machine learning features.
• Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.
• Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross‑functional stakeholders.

Who You Might Be

• 4+ years of experience in people management.
• 8+ years of work experience in a production software development environment.
• Strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and ease of use. You are an undying advocate for platform users and have a deep intuition for the machine learning development lifecycle.
• Experience working on large‑scale ML systems serving 100s of millions of users.
• Experience building a self‑service platform enabling storage and sharing of large‑scale data and embeddings.
• Experience with leading modelling teams powering the creation of foundational embeddings based on state‑of‑the‑art architectures.
• Strong organizational & communication skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.
• 401(k) 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.

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/.

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The base salary range for this position is:

$266,000—$372,400 USD

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