Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Reddit
Ads Optimization
$230-322k
+ Equity (RSU's)
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$230-322k
+ Equity (RSU's)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of contributing high-quality code to production systems that operate at scale
- 5+ years of experience building control systems, PID controllers, multi-armed bandits, reinforcement learning algorithms, or bid/pricing optimization systems
- Experience leading large engineering teams and collaborating with cross-functional partners is required
- Experience designing optimization algorithms in an ad serving platform and/or other marketplaces is preferred
- Experience with state of the art control systems, reinforcement learning algorithms is a strong plus
- Significant experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages like Java, Python, Go, Scala, C++ or similar
- Data processing frameworks like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Druid, etc
- A cloud service provider like AWS or GCP
- Tools: Kubernetes, Drone, CircleCI, Spinnaker, Argo, Airflow, Docker, Thrift
- Datastores: ElasticSearch / Amazon OpenSearch, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, BigQuery
- A machine learning modeling framework like Tensorflow or PyTorch
What the job involves
- As a staff machine learning engineer in the Advertiser Optimization team, you will work closely with technical leaders to build new advertiser optimization products like target CPA and target RoAS bidding, optimized CPM, view through optimization, etc that significantly increase the efficiency and ROI for the advertisers
- You will be responsible for the quality and technical approach within the team; partner with other leads in direction setting, planning, and overseeing engineering designs and executions; establish and contribute to the group’s culture and processes
- You will collaborate with cross-functional engineering, product, and marketing teams to ensure that our customers’ voices are represented in your work
- You will design, conduct, and analyze experiments to quantify the impact of the systems that you build
- We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to take a critical role in building state-of-the-art bidding optimization systems
- As a leader of this team, you will help us uplevel the capabilities of Reddit Ads platform through innovative optimization products that enhance advertiser value
- Building Reddit-scale optimizations to improve advertiser outcomes using cutting-edge techniques in the industry
- Leverage live auction data and model predictions to adjust campaign bids in real time
- Incorporate knowledge of the Reddit ads marketplace into budget pacing algorithms powered by control & reinforcement learning systems
- Lead the team on designing new bid & budget optimization products and algorithms as well as conducting rigorous A/B experiments to evaluate the business impact
- Actively participate and work with other leads to set the long term direction for the team, plan and oversee engineering designs and project execution
Our take
Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.
The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.
Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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