Salary
💰 $216,700 - $303,400 per year
About the role
- Build the pipelines and low-latency services behind one of the largest personalized feeds on the internet
- Turn modeling ideas into production systems, wire up new features and ranking signals, and design experiments that let us ship with confidence
- Write efficient, scalable and maintainable code that will help consistently deliver highly personalized experiences to Reddit users
- Design and implement components of our recommender systems to adapt to user signals and optimize for long term user satisfaction; potentially including user targeting and segmentation, candidate retrieval, reinforcement learning, feature engineering, and prediction models
- Follow data-driven design principles to develop hypotheses, test them via well designed experiments, and analyze the results to learn and iterate
- Champion and drive engineering processes and best practices
- Collaborate across disciplines and with other ML teams at Reddit to find technical solutions to complex challenges
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a machine learning engineer or software engineer developing backend / infrastructure at scale, using Go, Python, or any object oriented programming language
- 2+ years building data or model-serving pipelines at scale
- Experience working with recommender systems or other ML-driven products
- Familiar with software engineering best practices such as unit testing and code reviews, design, and documentation
- Skilled at diving into data to debug system performance and develop a deeper understanding of how users are engaging with the product; proficient with SQL and data analysis
- Passionate about building delightful products for users
- Entrepreneurial spirit. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You figure out what it takes to drive projects to success.
- Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences