Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's Messaging Infrastructure team as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of the foundational platform for Reddit's infrastructure. You will work collaboratively with a team to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Kafka and other messaging components. This role involves engineering Kafka as a platform and promoting event-driven architectures, impacting hundreds of millions of users. Responsibilities include software automation, API development, and contributing to the technical direction of eventing at Reddit. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in software development, particularly within infrastructure and distributed systems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure
• Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and solutions
• 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
• Experience navigating cross-functional migrations
• Experience mentoring other engineers

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 Kafka and other messaging 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kafka
• Experience building large-scale infrastructure
• Kubernetes controller or operator development experience

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