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Senior Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Indexing & Retrieval Search

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📍 US 🌐 Remote-only 💰 $279K–$390K Staff 10+ yrs
GoJavaPythonFlinkAirflowSparkKubernetesDockerAWSGCPMilvusVespa
TL;DR

Senior Staff ML Systems Engineer at Reddit building indexing and retrieval infrastructure for recommendations. Leads architecture of vector/lexical search systems, batch/stream processing pipelines, and low-latency retrieval services supporting content understanding and GenAI applications.

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Job description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. 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. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Team
The ML Indexing & Retrieval Platform team at Reddit is responsible for building and scaling the core infrastructure that powers machine learning driven recommendations. We design and maintain systems for ML data ingestion, low-latency retrieval services, and end-to-end lifecycle management of data. With a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability, we enable real-time access to high-quality data that supports a wide range of applications, including Content Understanding, Semantic, Lexical retrieval & GenAI applications. 

How You'll Have Impact

You’ll lead the development of next-generation ML Indexing & Retrieval systems, owning the full lifecycle from ideation to production and going beyond incremental improvements to reimagine core platform capabilities. As part of a high-impact, cross-functional team, you’ll solve complex technical challenges to build scalable, reliable platforms that empower developers to efficiently ship critical ML features.

Languages: Go, Java, Python, or any object oriented programming language

Frameworks: Flink, Airflow, Spark for large scale batch & stream processing 

Databases: Familiarity with Vector, Lexical & Key-Value Databases 

Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP

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This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:
$279,200$390,900 USD

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