Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's Storage Infra team as a Senior Staff Software Engineer and tackle large-scale storage infrastructure challenges. You will contribute to the team's long-term technical strategy, refine data storage infrastructure, own infrastructure supporting data operations, and mentor other engineers. This role requires extensive coding experience, technical leadership, and excellent communication skills. Experience with various storage technologies is a plus. Reddit offers a competitive salary, comprehensive healthcare benefits, 401k matching, workspace benefits, personal and professional development funds, flexible vacation, parental leave, and paid volunteer time off.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical leadership experience that includes both setting and delivering on long-term vision
• 10+ 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache

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