Senior Staff Software Engineer, Reddit

Storage

$232.5-325.5k

+ Eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units

Java

Redis

Postgres

Cassandra

C++

MySQL

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Be an early applicant

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Be an early applicant

$232.5-325.5k

+ Eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units

Java

Redis

Postgres

Cassandra

C++

MySQL

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

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

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of technical leadership experience that includes both setting and delivering on long-term vision
10+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product
Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field
Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!

What the job involves

As a Senior Staff 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
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
Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy
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

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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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

57% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

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

Articles

Reddit Claims 52 Million Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

Reddit’s Valuation Doubles to $6 Billion After Funding Round

From internet bad boy to next-door neighbor: Reddit makes a play for mainstream America

Reddit is eyeing a $15 billion IPO. Here’s how it became the giant cultural force it is today.

A Reddit Exec's Advice for Brands Still Thinking About Entering Web3

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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