Software Engineer, ML & Search Infrastructure

Summary

Join Reddit's Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineering team as a remote-friendly employee! You'll design, build, and maintain the infrastructure powering our search capabilities. Collaborate with architects and product teams to shape the roadmap for ML infrastructure and platforms. Build systems and tools to improve the ML software development lifecycle. Lead the building, testing, and maintenance of ML infrastructure. Contribute to high-performance ML infra solutions serving millions of Redditors. This role requires significant experience in production software development, large-scale ML systems, and specific technologies. Reddit offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 3-8+ 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

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and platform that powers our search capabilities
• Collaborate with Backend Architects and Product ML teams to shape the roadmap for ML infrastructure and platforms
• Provide ongoing support to scale the platform and meet evolving needs for state-of-the-art models
• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Generous time off for vacation
• Parental leave