Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's Deployment Infrastructure team as a Staff Software Engineer and lead the design and development of robust, automated deployment systems. You will collaborate with a team to build software for orchestrating complex workflows, ensuring global service rollout, and automating rollback of failed deployments. This role requires strong software engineering skills, experience with Kubernetes and continuous delivery systems, and excellent communication abilities. Reddit offers a competitive salary, comprehensive healthcare benefits, 401k matching, generous paid parental leave, and flexible vacation time.

Requirements

• 7+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

Language proficiency in Go

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
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Generous time off for vacation
• Parental leave