Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer, ML Platform

The company 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, the company users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, the company is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit [link for members] .

Who We Are

The Machine Learning Platform team at the company is a high-impact team that owns the infrastructure that powers recommendations, content discovery, user and content quantification, while directly impacting other teams such as Growth, Ads, Feeds, and Core Machine Learning teams.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Software Engineer, ML Platform, you will work on our ML Data Team and be instrumental in architecting, implementing, and maintaining foundational ML infrastructure powering Feeds Ranking, Content Understanding, Recommendations, Ads, and much more to fulfill the company’s mission of bringing community and belonging to everyone in the world. You will create ML data-governance tools that help MLEs discover and reason about signals, while contributing across the broader ML data platform—including prediction logging and training data systems.

• Lead the design, development, testing, and operation of ML signal-governance capabilities that help MLEs discover signals and understand their ownership, lineage, quality, and usage.

• Build tools that help teams assess signal importance and make informed lifecycle decisions.

• Partner with MLEs and cross-functional teams to define governance workflows and deliver reliable, intuitive ways to explore and act on signal metadata.

• Contribute across the ML Data Platform, including prediction logging and training data platforms, to design, develop, test, and operate batch and streaming pipelines processing petabyte-scale data.

• Drive complex projects end to end from technical planning and design through implementation, testing, rollout, and ongoing operation.

Who You Might Be

• 5+ years of experience in the ML Platform domain.

• Strong customer focus and experience driving projects from requirements to production in close collaboration with multiple cross-functional partners (XFN).

• Experience with large-scale batch and streaming data processing.

• Experience building production-quality systems with testing, monitoring, observability, and reliability practices.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and data-intensive architectures, with strong communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k with Employer Match

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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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, the company 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 [link for members] .

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary 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 salary range for this position is

$216,700 — $303,400 USD

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