This role pays more than
97%
of similar roles. Most pay
$126,800–$199,800
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$279k
versus about
$163k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Reddit
Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.
Reddit currently has
72 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$217,000–$303,900
across 66 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Staff Data Scientist on Reddit’s Consumer team, you will serve as the technical authority on relevance metrics and evaluation methodology, shaping how the platform measures content quality and user satisfaction. Your day-to-day involves developing metrics frameworks for ranking systems, designing experiments to analyze spillover effects between communities, and translating model performance into actionable insights for senior leadership. You must have deep expertise in recommendation systems, causal inference, and SQL proficiency, alongside strong communication skills to influence product strategy through data-driven insights. This role demands experience with complex, community-driven environments like Reddit’s, where the challenge is to improve personalized content ranking and search across an extensive corpus of user-generated content.
Remote (San Francisco, CA, US)today
$217,000–$303,900
Python
R
SQL
Marketing Mix Modeling
Multi-Touch Attribution
Customer Lifetime Value prediction
Bayesian structural time series
Causal inference libraries
Data pipelines
Machine learning
Churn prediction
Lead scoring
CI/CD