Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer, ML Platform
Required skills
- ML Platform
- Machine Learning Systems
- Data Governance
- Distributed Systems
- Data-Intensive Architectures
- Production Systems
- batch processing
- streaming pipelines
- petabyte-scale data
- signal governance
Nice to have
- customer focus
- cross-functional partners
Role summary
Reddit's Machine Learning Platform team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, implement, and maintain foundational ML infrastructure. This role focuses on the ML Data Team, developing ML data-governance tools and contributing to large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines. The engineer will lead the design and operation of ML signal-governance capabilities, helping MLEs manage signals effectively. The position requires 5+ years of experience in the ML Platform domain, strong understanding of distributed systems, data-intensive architectures, and production-quality system development with an emphasis on testing, monitoring, observability, and reliability. This is a remote position.
Who We Are: 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.
What You’ll Do:As a Senior Software Engineer, ML Platform, you will work on our ML Data Team and be instrumental in architecting, implementing, and maintaining foundational ML infrastructure 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 create ML data-governance tools that help MLEs discover and reason about signals, while contributing across the broader ML data platform—including prediction logging and training data systems.
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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/.
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Sample Reddit interview questions
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Design a system for real-time recommendation engine.
system designmedium - 2
Design a system for real-time fraud detection in financial transactions.
system designmedium - 3
Design a scalable load balancer for distributed systems.
system designmedium - 4
Explain the system components that make typing indicators and read receipts work across a distributed network
system designmedium - 5
Build a distributed logging service for large-scale systems.
system designmedium
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