Staff Backend Engineer, Reddit
Channels Foundation
$206.7-298.4k
+ Equity in the form of RSU's
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$206.7-298.4k
+ Equity in the form of RSU's
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
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 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
Our take
Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 130,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment and sports, to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.
The platform attracts over 120 million daily users and billions of monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddit stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.
Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation, connection and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
- Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal & professional development funds
- Paid volunteer time off
- Workspace & home office benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO & Founder)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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