Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Ranking Platform

Reddit Reddit · Consumer · United States · Remote · Machine Learning

Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer for Reddit's ML Ranking Platform, responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable ranking systems for personalized feeds, search, and other products. The role involves developing ML and Generative AI systems in production, partnering with cross-functional teams, and championing engineering best practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement the next generation ML ranking system that powers the personalized feeds, search and other products at Reddit
  2. Design and develop ML and Generative AI systems in cloud-based production environments at scale
  3. Partner closely with Product, Infrastructure and Engineering teams and translate requirements into scalable ML systems
  4. Write efficient, scalable and maintainable code that will help us iterate quickly and safely
  5. Champion and drive engineering processes and best practices

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer developing large-scale distributed systems and data intensive ML based system, using Go, Python, C++ or any object oriented programming language
  • 5+ years of experience with designing and implementing large-scale performant and reliable machine learning systems
  • Experience with developing and improving tools such as deployment, automation, system diagnosis, ML monitoring etc.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule with a strong attention to detail
  • BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
  • Familiar with software engineering best practices such as unit testing and code reviews, design, and documentation
  • Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure
  • Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

  • Experience with recommendation systems is preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • highly robust, scalable, reliable and performant ranking systems
  • large-scale distributed systems and data intensive ML based system
  • large-scale performant and reliable machine learning systems
  • recommendation systems is preferred

Other signals

  • ML Ranking Platform powers 40+ Reddit products
  • scatter-gather ranking orchestration service
  • platform to develop the ranking, recommendation and personalization products
  • design, implement and maintain highly robust, scalable, reliable and performant ranking systems
  • building the ranking engines that orchestrate workflows for a reliable and performant ML-based system