Software Engineer, ML Feature Platform

Reddit; Myrtle Point (OR); Remote; USD 185,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online community platform seeks a Software Engineer to join the Machine Learning Platform team. You will architect and maintain foundational ML infrastructure and ship features that improve content discovery and user experience. This remote-friendly role requires 2-3 years of software development experience and familiarity with large-scale systems. Comprehensive benefits include healthcare, 401k match, and parental support.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Match

Gender-Affirming Care

Flexible Vacation

Paid Volunteer time off

Qualifications

• 2-3+ years of work experience in production software development.
• Experience working on large-scale systems serving hundreds of millions of users.
• Experience building production-quality code with testing and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain foundational ML infrastructure.
• Tinker with data at Reddit scale and ship relevant features.
• Support Feeds Ranking, Content Understanding, and Recommendations.

Skills

Production software development experience

Large-scale systems experience

Object-oriented programming (Python, Scala, Golang)

Kubernetes

Open source data stack (Kafka, Flink, Cassandra, Redis)

Distributed systems knowledge

Strong organizational & communication skills

Job description

Overview

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to open and authentic conversations. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Location

This role is completely remote-friendly. If you 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

At Reddit, the ML Feature Platform is a big deal — it’s the toolkit that every ML team relies on. As a Software Engineer, ML Feature Platform, you’ll get to tinker with data at Reddit scale, make it fast and reliable, and ship features that directly shape how people find memes, news, friends, and everything in between. This person will 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.

Who You Might Be

• 2-3+ years of work experience in a production software development environment
• Experience working on large-scale systems serving 100s of millions of users
• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous 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. 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 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: $185,800 — $260,100 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, and transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

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.

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