Remote Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Observability team at Reddit as a Staff Software Engineer to work on infrastructure and software development, contributing to tools like Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, and more. You'll collaborate with engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit's infrastructure, deliver software to improve observability components, and contribute upstream changes to open-source projects.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure
• Familiarity with distributed systems development, bonus if familiar with any of the specific tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, Loki)
• Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems
• 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

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 observability 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
• Contribute upstream changes to the open source projects we use

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