5 months ago
Base Salary
$217k - $303k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the backend architecture for onboarding signal collection, personalization pipelines, and experimentation infrastructure.
- Shape the team’s growth engineering strategy and balance experimentation velocity with reliability.
- Build collaborative relationships with Relevance, Feeds, Notifications, and other engineering teams.
- Establish instrumentation and experimentation foundations for rigorous A/B testing and growth measurement.
- Represent engineering in cross-functional planning with Product, Design, Data Science, and platform teams.
- Lead design reviews and establish scalable, reliable, maintainable engineering patterns.
- Mentor engineers and raise the organization’s engineering quality bar.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience.
- Experience steering cross-team projects that solve tangible business problems.
- Experience mentoring engineers and helping teams solve complex technical problems.
- Strong systems thinking, data-informed decision-making, and communication skills.
- Experience with ranking, recommendations, and personalization in ML-heavy products.
- Ability to design backend architectures, retrieval systems, and inference pipelines at scale.
- Understanding of candidate generation, scoring, and model outputs such as Two-Tower models.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
- Family planning support.
- Gender-affirming care.
- Mental health and coaching benefits.
- Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
- Generous paid parental leave.
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About Reddit
Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.