Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Job Overview

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.

With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www. redditinc. com .

Job Description

The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems. Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world.

With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit.

For more information, visit redditinc. com. Our caching layer serves 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys. We do this while efficiently storing 100s of Terabytes of data across thousands of machines.

In your day-to-day, you can expect to: Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth.
• 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 Who you might be: 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure.
• You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
• Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions.
• You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.
• Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit Who you might be: 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure.
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
• Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!
• Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

Benefits and Perks

• In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.
• Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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