Staff Backend Engineer, Reddit
Channels Foundation
$206.7-298.4k
+ Equity in the form of RSU's
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$206.7-298.4k
+ Equity in the form of RSU's
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Designing or re-architecting systems to scale to millions of users (more than 100k req/s or op/s)
- Large scale technology migrations (such as language migrations, stack migrations and so forth)
- Experience with diagnosing and optimizing backend performance, especially in regards to increasing throughput, stability, or automated scaling
- Distributed system and cloud infrastructure experience a plus
- A past track record of Quality
- Enabling a testing culture, such as unit testing, setting up load testing framework, enabling local testing or other automated testing
- Structurally improving the resiliency and fault tolerance of systems or code
- Collaboration skills: you work well with a team, but also help level-up those around you
- You may demonstrate skills in one or more of the following: written/verbal communication, project leadership, mentorship, negotiating conflict, or engineering culture improvements
- You embody our company value of Evolve: you view challenges as learning opportunities and continuously seek to improve
What the job involves
- Join us and help build the future of Reddit!
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead a team of talented engineers in our effort to completely rewrite the infrastructure of our notifications system for scale to meet our growth, and help innovate new capabilities to reach our users
- With our small focused team, your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world
- The Channels team at Reddit’s mission is to send the right content to the right user at the right time using the right channel. We deliver over half a billion push notifications and emails to Reddit users every day. With Reddit’s growth trajectory, we are starting a re-architecture for the next order of magnitude
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
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.
Insights
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
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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