# Senior Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Indexing & Retrieval Search

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Reddit is hiring. Negotiable · Full Time · Human.

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## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Company | Reddit |
| Budget | Negotiable |
| Type | Full Time |
| Worker | Human |
| Posted | 2026-07-15 |
| Apply | https://www.jobsinai.com/jobs/reddit_senior-staff-machine-learning-systems-engineer-indexing-and-retrieval-search_37f6fb2a |
| Company page | https://www.jobsinai.com/companies/reddit |

## Description

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .
Team
The ML Indexing & Retrieval Platform team at Reddit is responsible for building and scaling the core infrastructure that powers machine learning driven recommendations. We design and maintain systems for ML data ingestion, low-latency retrieval services, and end-to-end lifecycle management of data. With a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability, we enable real-time access to high-quality data that supports a wide range of applications, including Content Understanding, Semantic, Lexical retrieval & GenAI applications.
How You'll Have Impact
You’ll lead the development of next-generation ML Indexing & Retrieval systems, owning the full lifecycle from ideation to production and going beyond incremental improvements to reimagine core platform capabilities. As part of a high-impact, cross-functional team, you’ll solve complex technical challenges to build scalable, reliable platforms that empower developers to efficiently ship critical ML features.
Languages: Go, Java, Python, or any object oriented programming language
Frameworks: Flink, Airflow, Spark for large scale batch & stream processing
Databases: Familiarity with Vector, Lexical & Key-Value Databases
Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP
What You’ll Do
- Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and implementation of Reddit’s next-generation ML Indexing & Retrieval engine, integrating capabilities across lexical and vector indexing, low-latency retrieval, and emerging GenAI applications.
- Partner closely with product engineers across Content Understanding, Search, Feeds, Ads, Growth, and Safety to deliver high-quality experiences.
- Define best practices for observability, reliability, and o

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