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 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
The Search & Recommendation Relevance team focuses on delivering the most relevant results and recommendations when users search for anything on Reddit. Our systems and algorithms operate on the world's largest corpus of human conversation, showcasing the best answers and opinions from all across Reddit on any topics - whether its recommendations for the best hiking trail, travel advice, or reviews of the next product or restaurant.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to shape the future of Search products at Reddit. In this role, you will lead a team dedicated to advancing our current search systems as well as building and iterating on Reddit Answers, our next generation AI-driven search product.
If applying ML / AI in production to improve Reddit Search Relevance excites you, then you’ve found the right place.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Technical Expertise
Lead the team that architects and designs search at Reddit.
- Apply Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence to retrieve relevant results with optimal ranking.
- Participate in the full development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy.
- Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.
Hiring
- Reddit Search will grow quickly during your tenure at Reddit, and our engineering managers are directly responsible for scaling up their teams.
- Identify your team’s needs, write job descriptions, source, interview, and help close candidates.
- You will have the support of our incredible recruiting team to bring diverse and talented engineers into Reddit.
Career Development
- Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.
- Constantly seek opportunities to push your engineers & managers outside their comfort zone and turn followers into leaders.
Organizational Alignment
- Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.
- Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
- 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Software Engineer developing production code.
- Strong understanding of search, recommendation systems and ML / AI techniques.
- Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
- Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.
- Experience with vector search for semantic search or embedding lookup.
- Experience with lexical search retrieval at scale using SOLR/Elastic Search
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k Match
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
Pay Transparency:
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 pay 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 pay range for this position is:
$230,000—$322,000 USD
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].
Top Skills
What We Do
Reddit is a community of millions of users engaging in the creation of content and the sharing of conversation across tens of thousands of topics. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.
Why Work With Us
At Reddit, you’ll help build something that encourages millions around the world to think more, do more, learn more, feel more– and maybe even laugh more.
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