Senior Software Engineer, Deployment

Summary

Join Reddit's Deployment Infrastructure team as a Senior Software Engineer, focusing on building robust, automated deployment systems that prioritize reliability and efficiency. You'll be responsible for orchestrating complex deployment workflows, ensuring global service rollouts, automating rollback of failed deployments, and providing insights into deployment health. This role involves collaborating with a team of software engineers, integrating open-source technologies, and building user-friendly tools. You'll also be responsible for sharing on-call responsibilities with the team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working in the infrastructure and/or deployment domain. Specifically with a focus on software engineering (as opposed to systems operations)
• Language proficiency in either Go (Preferred), Rust, or Python
• Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems
• Experience utilizing systems in the continuous delivery domain such as Argo, Flux, Temporal, and similar systems
• Strong troubleshooting competency ranging from higher-level orchestration concerns to lower-level runtime ones
• Experience designing large systems, scoping work, and building consensus with other engineers
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers build and deploy software capable of
• Orchestrating complex deployment workflows
• Progressively rolling out services globally
• Achieving automated rollback of failed deployments
• Providing insight and monitoring around the health of deployments
• Work with our end-users to establish requirements and designs
• Integrate open source technologies, largely in the CNCF ecosystem and at times contribute to them to help meet Reddit’s business needs
• Build end user tooling, for example CLI utilities in Go that help interact with dashboards
• Share on-call responsibilities with the deployment infrastructure team

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off