Remote Staff Software Engineer, Kafka Platform

Summary

Join the Data Processing and Workflow Foundations team as a Staff Software Engineer to work on infrastructure and software development challenges, including engineering Kafka as a platform and promoting event-driven architectures.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure
• Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and solutions, bonus if familiar with Kafka specifically
• Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems
• Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software
• Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and being a self-starter on projects
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company
• Experience navigating cross-functional migrations
• Experience mentoring other engineers

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit's infrastructure
• Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Kafka and other messaging components
• Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit
• Automate critical aspects of the event-driven development process
• Share on-call responsibilities

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off