Senior Software Engineer, Ads ML Features Platform

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Overview

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Reddit has a flexible first workforce! If you happen to live close to our physical office location our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you’d like. Don’t live near one of our offices? You can apply to work remotely from the Netherlands or the United Kingdom.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build data infrastructure that supports large-scale feature computation, transformation, and storage.
• Develop frameworks for batch and event-driven features with a focus on reliability, scalability, and ease of use.
• Drive improvements in data quality and governance through validation, anomaly detection, drift monitoring, and feature lineage tracking.
• Partner with ML engineers to ensure smooth integration of feature engineering workflows into ML production systems.
• Contribute to training set generation pipelines and ensure reproducibility and feature versioning for model development.
• Help shape the future of the platform by exploring streaming feature management and other next-gen capabilities.

What You Bring

• 5+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering or large-scale distributed systems.
• 2+ years hands-on experience with SQL-based cloud data warehouses (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks).
• Proficiency with large-scale feature computation frameworks (Spark, PySpark, or Scala).
• Expertise in distributed systems (scaling, partitioning, fault tolerance, caching).
• Familiarity with ML production systems, especially ML feature platforms, is a big plus.
• Knowledge of MLOps workflows – from feature engineering to training to online serving.

Benefits

• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical and Dental Scheme
• Life Assurance, Income Protection
• Workspace benefit for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Commuter Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

Equal opportunity statement: 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, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Social Networking Platforms