Senior Software Engineer, Reddit

ML Feature Platform

$216.7-303.4k

+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units

Kubernetes

Python

Scala

Kafka

Redis

Cassandra

Flink

Golang

Mid and Senior level

Remote from US

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

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Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Be an early applicant

$216.7-303.4k

+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units

Kubernetes

Python

Scala

Kafka

Redis

Cassandra

Flink

Golang

Mid and Senior level

Remote from US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

4-6+ years of work experience in a production software development environment
Experience working on large-scale ML Systems serving 100s of millions of users
Experience building feature stores and feature engineering infrastructure
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

What the job involves

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
As a Senior Software Engineer, ML Feature Platform, you will work on our Machine Learning Feature Platform Team and 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
You will build feature stores for online inference and model training, tools that enable machine learning engineers (MLEs) and data scientists (DSs) to improve the ML feature software development lifecycle
Lead the building, testing, and maintenance of our ML Feature Store and Feature Engineering infrastructure at Reddit that serves 100 million+ redditors
Work with other engineers across ML Platform and Reddit infrastructure to significantly advance the ML Platform
Work with management on team goal setting, planning, and de-risk project execution
Mentor other team members in adopting a rigorous DevOps approach to maintain and/or improve ML infra components and services health and quality

Our take

Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.

The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.

Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.

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Insights

Top investors

57% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2021

$410m

SERIES F

Feb 2021

$250m

SERIES E

Total funding: $1.2bn

Company benefits

Paid volunteer time off
4+ months paid parental leave
Personal and professional development stipend
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Steve Huffman

(CEO)

After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.

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