Senior Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Ads ML Platform
Remote - United States · Staff+ · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$293k-$410kDetected 16 hours ago
Distributed SystemsBigQuerySnowflakeDatabricksKubernetesKafkaMachine LearningSparkAirflowMLOpsA/B TestingSystems EngineeringLeadershipMentoring
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61Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Reddit, Inc. obtained a prevailing wage determination for Software Developers in San Francisco, CALIFORNIA on 2026-06-11. No matching green-card filing appears in our data yet. The determination expires in 3 days (2026-09-08), and a green-card filing must follow before then or the employer starts over.
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About the role
- 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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy for the end-to-end Ads ML engineer lifecycle, starting with feature development, training data, offline experimentation, and model iteration workflows.
- Build platform abstractions and workflow automation that make ML development faster, safer, more reliable, and more self-service.
- Partner across Ads, ML Platform, Data Platform, modeling, product, and engineering teams to clarify ownership, resolve ambiguity, and drive durable execution.
- You influence senior engineers and leaders through clear technical reasoning, RFCs, design reviews, decision frameworks, and operating mechanisms.
- Family Planning Support
Requirements
- You have 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, distributed systems, ML platforms, data platforms, or large-scale backend systems.
- You have led broad, ambiguous, multi-team platform initiatives from strategy through adoption.
- You have deep experience in ML platform, feature platform, training data, experimentation, developer infrastructure, or distributed data infrastructure.
- You have worked with distributed data and compute systems such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Ray, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies.
- You can balance urgent customer needs with durable long-term architecture and reusable platform patterns.
- You are excited to shape how production ML systems are built, scaled, and operated, not only how models are trained.
- You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence
Compensation
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- 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.
Company info
- Stay close to ML engineers and platform customers to identify high-leverage friction points and improve day-to-day development velocity.
- Reddit is a community of communities.
- Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust.
Equal opportunity
- Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
- If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
This listing is sourced directly from Reddit's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.