Staff Software Engineer - Content Platform

Reddit, Inc. is a community-driven platform that facilitates open conversations on the internet. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of their Content Platform, focusing on enhancing the reliability and efficiency of their core services.

Responsibilities:

• Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go and sometimes Python
• Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’s monolith legacy stack
• Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications
• Own the design & evolution of our platform and build for the next 4+ years of continued scale and growth of Reddit
• Identify gaps in our current designs and lead redesigns of our platform to improve developer velocity and enable Reddit growth
• Work collaboratively with other software engineers from Infra and Product orgs
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate storage capabilities into broader storage infrastructure and use cases across Reddit
• Mentor and guide other backend engineers across the company

Requirements:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience building internet-scale software, distributed systems or platforms used by other developers
• BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java
• Prior experience and capability with scaled, high rate platform services, and API design. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how critical infra systems work at scale
• Demonstrated history of technical leadership, successfully guiding engineering teams to deliver impactful, high-quality solutions
• Exceptional communication skills with a strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Experience with (or curiosity to learn about) Kubernetes, gRPC, Cassandra, TiDB, Redis is a huge plus