Senior Software Engineer, Reddit

Caching

$190.8-267.1k

+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units

Python

Java

Redis

Postgres

Cassandra

C++

MySQL

Golang

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Job no longer available

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Job no longer available

$190.8-267.1k

+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units

Python

Java

Redis

Postgres

Cassandra

C++

MySQL

Golang

Senior and 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 experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in storage infrastructure roles
Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, Java, C++
Prior experience with Storage technologies is a plus (Redis, Valkey, Memcached, Cassandra, Postgres, MySQL, Zookeeper)
Prior experience with operating a large scale critical infrastructure system with a focus on automation and workflow development is a plus, especially in a role where they were required to be oncall
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company

What the job involves

The position is a mix of software engineering and cloud engineering; a lot of the time, we are writing software to implement important workflows that automate the operation of our vast production infrastructure
You will also work with our product teams to make the underlying Storage technologies work better for Reddit’s main workloads, including defining and improving the application’s data models and data access patterns, and lots of times, this also involves data-driven analysis and tuning of the Storage stack to make step function improvements to the end-to-end data path
Our caching layer servers 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys
We are responsible for efficiently storing 100s of terabytes of data. As a senior 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
Develop reliable and efficient workflows to automate a large number of operational tasks that are essential to operating the critical Storage infrastructure for Reddit
Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go and sometimes Python
Contribute to the design and implementation of caching mechanisms for high-performance, large-scale storage systems
Collaborate closely with team members and stakeholders to incorporate caching solutions to broader storage system use cases

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

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 HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

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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