Senior Staff Software Engineer, Indexing & Retrieval Platform

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 operational excellence in large-scale distributed systems.
• Mentor and guide engineers in designing scalable infrastructure and adopting robust DevOps and SRE principles.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, and ML teams to ensure the platform evolves to meet the needs of Reddit’s growing user base and diverse content ecosystem.

Who You Might Be

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, specializing in Indexing and Retrieval systems.
• 3+ years in technical leadership, architecting and scaling distributed systems in production environments.
• Deep expertise in large-scale data platforms, including batch indexing and stream processing.
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, low-latency retrieval services.
• Expertise in lexical and vector search retrieval technologies, such as Milvus, Vespa, or Elasticsearch.
• Skilled in designing cloud-native architectures and managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes and AWS/GCP.
• Adept at translating complex technical challenges into clear, actionable strategies.
• Strong communicator and mentor who leads through collaboration, influence, and technical excellence.

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