Software Engineer, Reddit

Data Infrastructure

$164.2-229.9k

+ Equity. 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

Kubernetes
Python
Scala
Java
Go
Airflow
Terraform
Flink
Mid level
New York
Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Job no longer available

Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Job no longer available

$164.2-229.9k

+ Equity. 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

Kubernetes
Python
Scala
Java
Go
Airflow
Terraform
Flink
Mid level
New York

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Scala, Python, Go, or Java
  • Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems, diligently monitoring project progress, and showcasing proactive leadership as a self-starter on diverse projects
  • Experience working with cloud services, terraform, airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Flink and working with modern cloud-based infrastructure
  • Excellent communication skills tailored for effective collaboration within both a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context

What the job involves

  • The Data Infrastructure team is looking to hire a Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale batch and streaming data challenges
  • Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support real-time analysis of hundreds of millions of users
  • Own the data pipeline that surfaces 100B+ daily events to all teams, and the tools we use ingestion, storage and to improve data quality
  • Building opinionated guardrails to drive improvements in data quality, cost efficiency, and data governance
  • Software automation that connects our data services and surfaces metadata to downstream customers for discovery and data contract enforcement
  • Monitoring/alerting for our core systems and the mechanisms built on top
  • Collaborate effectively with a team of proficient software engineers to develop and maintain the fundamental platform that powers the cutting-edge Reddit's data infrastructure
  • Engage in the complete data lifecycle at Reddit, participating in the development process and working with one of the world's most extensive and data-rich datasets
  • Design, Build and Deliver end-to-end data solutions to improve the reliability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Reddit’s Data Platform
  • Implement automation for key elements of the development process, including data quality, managing alerts and handling critical infrastructure operations
  • Collaborate and Share on-call responsibilities, including incident management

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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57% employee growth in 12 months

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

Founders

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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