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Senior Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Ads ML Platform
RedditRemote - United States · Remote · full time · Senior Staff
$292,500 – $409,500
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What this role is
Reddit seeks a senior technical leader to establish the strategic direction for their ads ML platform's engineer lifecycle, from feature development through model deployment. This role suits someone with deep systems and production ML expertise who can drive cross-team initiatives and mentor senior engineers.
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Skills this role names
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Flink
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Kafka
- Databricks
- Google BigQuery
- Kubernetes
- Snowflake
- SPARK
- V-Ray
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years in infrastructure, distributed systems, ML platforms, data platforms, or large-scale backend systems
- 4+ years building or operating production ML infrastructure, feature platforms, training data systems, experimentation systems, or large-scale data pipelines
- Led broad, ambiguous, multi-team platform initiatives from strategy through adoption
- Built platforms used directly by ML engineers, data scientists, or product teams
- Deep experience in ML platform, feature platform, training data, experimentation, developer infrastructure, or distributed data infrastructure
- Influences senior engineers and leaders through technical reasoning and design reviews
- Balances urgent customer needs with long-term architecture and reusable patterns
Nice to have
- Experience with specific distributed data and compute systems like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Ray, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks