Staff Software Engineer, Reddit

• 8+ years of work experience in a production software development environment
• Experience working on large-scale ML Systems
• Experience building production-quality code incorporating testing, evaluation, and monitoring using object-oriented programming, including experience in golang, Python and Scala
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Knowledge of maintaining or developing applications using large-scale data stack, e.g, BigQuery, GraphQL, Kafka, Flink, Cassandra, Redis, Search Databases
• Comfortable with distributed systems, big data (Petabyte scale) and data-intensive systems
• Strong organizational & communication skills

• This role is completely remote-friendly. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like
• We collaborate closely with machine learning engineers to support a diverse range of models and partner with training and feature teams to deliver a seamless train-to-serve experience for efficient and reliable model deployment
• As a Staff ML Infrastructure Engineer, AI Serving, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and platform that powers our search capabilities
• You will collaborate with Backend Architects and Product ML teams to shape the roadmap for ML infrastructure and platforms, while providing ongoing support to scale the platform and meet evolving needs for state-of-the-art models
• You will build systems and tools that enable machine learning engineers (MLEs) and data scientists (DSs) and continuously improve the ML software development lifecycle, enabling the continuous iteration and improvement of systems that use ML techniques, including Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Recommendation Systems, Representation Learning, and Computer Vision
• Lead the building, testing, and maintenance of ML infrastructure at Reddit
• Propose, design, and implement high-performance ML Infra solutions that significantly advance the deployment of models that serve millions of redditors a seamless experience for MLEs
• Design and implement solutions that significantly advance the ML Infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with XFN partner teams/internal customers
• 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

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

Total funding: $1.2bn

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.