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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems.
Our community of users generates over 100B analytics events per day, each of which is ingested by the Data Infrastructure team into a data warehouse that sees 55,000+ daily queries. We utilize this data to enable both batch and streaming data usage at the company. The team also owns our Streaming Platform that is built using Flink.
Our caching layer serves hundreds of millions of queries per second, serving hundreds of billions of keys. We are responsible for efficiently storing hundreds of terabytes of data. As a staff engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth. You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.
In your day-to-day, you can expect to:
- Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.
- Refine and maintain our data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users.
- Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports data writes, reads and storage along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure.
- Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit.
Who you might be:
- 7+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
- Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
- Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!
Pay Transparency:
The base pay range for this position is:
$206,700 - $289,400 USD
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
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