Engineering Manager, Search Relevance

The Search & Recommendation Relevance team focuses on delivering the most relevant results and recommendations when users search for anything on Reddit. Our systems and algorithms operate on the world's largest corpus of human conversation, showcasing the best answers and opinions from all across Reddit on any topics -  whether its recommendations for the best hiking trail, travel advice, or reviews of the next product or restaurant.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to shape the future of  Search products at Reddit. In this role, you will lead a team dedicated to advancing our current search systems as well as building and iterating on Reddit Answers, our next generation AI-driven search product.

If applying ML / AI in production to improve Reddit Search Relevance excites you, then you’ve found the right place.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Technical Expertise

Lead the team that architects and designs search at Reddit.

• Apply Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence to retrieve relevant results with optimal ranking.

• Participate in the full development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy.

• Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.

Hiring

• Reddit Search will grow quickly during your tenure at Reddit, and our engineering managers are directly responsible for scaling up their teams.

• Identify your team’s needs, write job descriptions, source, interview, and help close candidates. 

• You will have the support of our incredible recruiting team to bring diverse and talented engineers into Reddit. 

Career Development

• Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.

• Constantly seek opportunities to push your engineers & managers outside their comfort zone and turn followers into leaders.

Organizational Alignment

• Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.

• Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.

• 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Software Engineer developing production code.

• Strong understanding of search, recommendation systems and ML / AI techniques.

• Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.

• Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

• Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.

• Experience with vector search for semantic search or embedding lookup.

• Experience with lexical search retrieval at scale using SOLR/Elastic Search

• Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k Match

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off

• Generous paid Parental Leave  

• Paid Volunteer time off