Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's Storage Infra team as a Staff Software Engineer and tackle large-scale storage infrastructure challenges. Contribute to the team's long-term technical strategy, refine data storage infrastructure, and own the infrastructure supporting data operations. Mentor other engineers and collaborate with stakeholders across various departments. This role requires 7+ years of coding experience, excellent communication skills, experience with object-oriented programming, and a Computer Science degree or equivalent. Reddit offers competitive compensation, comprehensive healthcare benefits, 401k matching, workspace benefits, personal and professional development funds, flexible vacation, parental leave, and paid volunteer time off.

Requirements

• 7+ 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
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Generous time off for vacation
• Parental leave