Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

at Reddit

📍 United States

USD 266,000-372,400 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Used Tools & Technologies

Machine Learning

Required Skills & Competences
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3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

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10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

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Details

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. 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.

The Feed Relevance team is responsible for the end-to-end systems that power personalization and ranking for the main Reddit feeds. This role blends hands-on development with technical leadership, focusing on building scalable, extensible, and highly performant personalization systems. You will define technical direction, collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership on strategy, and work with other individual contributors to scale systems to serve tens of millions of users. You will also partner with Infrastructure and Platform teams to influence core infrastructure for 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; 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 and maintain a strong, healthy engineering culture

Requirements

10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance-driven products
Subject matter expertise in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems; able to solve complex problems in these domains
Deep understanding of how to build sustainable software systems at large scale
Experience influencing organizations on technical direction and best practices
Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business, and data teams to deliver great experiences
Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability, and quality
High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise across the engineering organization

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs
401(k) with employer match
Global benefit programs covering workspace, professional development, and caregiving support
Family planning support and gender-affirming care
Mental health and coaching benefits
Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off
Generous paid parental leave

Pay Transparency

Base salary range for U.S.-based candidates: $266,000 - $372,400 USD. In addition to base salary, the role may be eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units and, depending on position, commission. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills and experience.

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