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Senior Software Engineer, Data Processing & Workflow Foundations

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Location
United States
Base Salary
191k-267k USD
Reddit

Job Description

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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Data Processing and Workflow Foundations (DPWF) team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team’s challenges break into 2 domains, which we consider engineering kafka as a platform and promotingevent driven architectures.

Engineering kafka as a platform: Higher-level orchestration of Kafka to support our multi-cloud, multi-region, deployments. A subset of current focuses include:

  • Software automation that creates, manages, and destroys kafka clusters in our environments.
  • APIs and controllers that support operation of kafka clusters at scale atop kubernetes
  • Automation of replication and other cluster management concerns.

Promoting event driven architectures: Reddit is increasingly adopting geographically distributed, eventually consistent architectures. As part of this shift, many systems are shifting to event driven architectures, and the DPWF team is working to make this adoption simpler and faster. Current projects are:

  • Reddit specific clients and templates with helper functions and features suited to our use of Kafka
  • Schema Registries and enforcement
  • Capacity management and ACLs through client enforced authentication
  • GitOps developer experience for Kafka interaction

As a member of the Data Processing and Workflow Foundations team, your work will span these 2 domains, which are rich with challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

  • 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.

You have:

  • 4+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with asynchronous communication, bonus if familiar with Kafka specifically
  • Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
    • Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus.
  • 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.

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

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

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. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. 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.

The base pay range for this position is:
$190,800$267,100 USD

Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.

Advice from our career coach

A successful applicant for the Senior Software Engineer position at Reddit should be well-versed in infrastructure and software development, particularly in the context of engineering kafka as a platform and promoting event-driven architectures. To stand out as an applicant, consider the following tips and insights:

  • Highlight experience in developing internet-scale software, preferably in an infrastructure context.
  • Show familiarity with asynchronous communication, with bonus points for experience with Kafka.
  • Demonstrate experience working with Kubernetes or similar distributed systems, especially in controller or operator development.
  • Emphasize strong troubleshooting capabilities in both systems and software.
  • Showcase experience in engineering large systems, tracking work, and being a self-starter on projects.
  • Highlight excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with a service-oriented team and company.

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