Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

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

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We’re looking for a

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

to join our

Feed Relevance

team, which is responsible for the

end-to-end systems

that power personalization and ranking for the main Reddit feeds. This is a critical role that blends

hands-on development with technical leadership

, focusing on building scalable, extensible, and highly performant personalization systems. You will be instrumental in defining the technical direction for the team, collaborating closely with

Product and Engineering leadership

to set the strategy, and working with other individual contributors to execute and

scale our systems to serve tens of millions of users

. This work will directly enable our Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) and engineers to quickly iterate and continuously improve the user experience. You will also partner with Infra and Platform teams to inform the direction of our core infrastructure, building for the future of ML at Reddit.

Responsibilities

Deliver on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact

Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy across multiple orgs

Work with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects

Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers

Create a strong healthy engineering culture

Qualifications

10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products

Subject matter expert in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems; able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can

Deep understanding of how to build sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization

Experience In Influencing Organizations On Technical Direction/best Practices

Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences.

Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact with software at scale.

High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org

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

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The Base Salary Range For This Position Is

$266,000

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$372,400 USD

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