Senior Staff Software Engineer, Indexing & Retrieval Platform

• Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and implementation of Reddit’s next-generation ML Indexing & Retrieval engine, integrating capabilities across lexical and vector indexing, low-latency retrieval, and emerging GenAI applications. - Partner closely with product engineers across Content Understanding, Search, Feeds, Ads, Growth, and Safety to deliver high-quality experiences. - Define best practices for observability, reliability, and operational excellence in large-scale distributed systems. - Mentor and guide engineers in designing scalable infrastructure and adopting robust DevOps and SRE principles. - Collaborate with infrastructure, and ML teams to ensure the platform evolves to meet the needs of Reddit’s growing user base and diverse content ecosystem. The base salary range for this position is:

$279,200—$390,900 USD

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