Staff Software Engineer, Reddit
Compute Reliability and Efficiency
$206.7-289.4k
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$206.7-289.4k
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience working in the infrastructure domain – with a focus on lower-level systems such as Linux
- Language proficiency in either Go (Preferred), Rust, or Python
- Understanding of kernel primitives (cgroups, namespaces), cpu scheduling, userspace concerns, and packet processing
- Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems
- Strong troubleshooting competency ranging from higher-level orchestration concerns to lower-level runtime ones
- Experience designing large systems, scoping work, and building consensus with other engineers
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company
What the job involves
- The Compute Reliability and Efficiency team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer with a focus on lower-level (Linux and Kubernetes) systems engineering that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software engineering
- At Reddit, our Compute organization breaks down into 2 teams:
- Compute Reliability and Efficiency (CRE)
- Compute Platform and Orchestration (CPO)
- CRE: Intra-cluster engineering problems focused on balancing performance, efficiency, and stability. A subset of focus areas include:
- Detection of node-level (Linux) performance characteristics and making availability decisions based on the data
- Schedulers that support more efficient packing of resources along with reactive rescheduling on the basis of changing compute availability
- Lower-level Kubernetes integrations such as CSI drivers, node probs, and kernel-level observability
- Cluster upgrades, both mechanical process concerns and automation
- CPO: Higher-level orchestration of both compute capacity and workload primitives to support our multi-cloud, multi-region, deployments. A subset of current focuses include:
- Software automation that creates, manages, and destroys clusters in our fleet
- APIs and controllers that support multi-cluster deployment and scheduling mechanics
- Core SDKs that enable controller development in the larger organization
- Software that codifies out-of-cluster ancillary concerns such as network configurations and managed services
- As a member of the Compute Reliability and Efficiency team, you’ll be solving some of the world’s largest at-scale infrastructure problems using software we create along with integrating services from the cloud native ecosystem
- 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
- Execute performance and reliability analysis on our Linux-based Kubernetes fleet
- Design, write (Golang), and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s Compute Platform
- Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of the compute platform
- Automate critical aspects of the development process such as service creation and management, as well as critical infrastructure operations
- Share on-call responsibilities with the Compute team
Our take
Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.
The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.
Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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