Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's Data Warehouse Platform team as a Staff Software Engineer to tackle large-scale data platform and efficiency challenges. You will build and improve scalable, fault-tolerant, self-service systems, ensuring high-end-to-end data quality. Key projects involve creating a user-friendly data warehouse platform, improving data warehouse efficiency, and contributing to the team's long-term strategy. You will own the data warehouse storing 100B+ daily events, refine offline data technologies, and mentor other engineers. This role requires 7+ years of coding experience, excellent communication skills, and experience with various technologies like Kubernetes, BigQuery, and Airflow.

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, Python, Scala, or Java
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field
• Experience working with Kubernetes, BigQuery, Airflow, Terraform, Helm, Prometheus, Debezium, and CI/CD
• Experience developing user friendly platform technologies
• Experience solving large scale efficiency problems

Responsibilities

• Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term strategy
• Own the data warehouse that stores 100B+ daily events and exposes them to teams across Reddit for analytics and machine learning purposes
• Refine and maintain our offline data technologies and associated tooling to support the analysis of hundreds of millions of users
• Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit

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