Staff Software Engineer, Reddit
Messaging Infrastructure
$206.7-289.4k
+ Restricted stock units
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Be an early applicant
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$206.7-289.4k
+ Restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure
- Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and solutions, bonus if familiar with Kafka specifically or experience building large-scale infrastructure
- Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems
- Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus
- Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software
- Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and being a self-starter on projects
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company
- Experience navigating cross-functional migrations
- Experience mentoring other engineers
What the job involves
- The Messaging Infrastructure team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development
- This team’s challenges break into 2 domains, which we consider engineering Kafka as a platform and promoting event driven architectures
- Engineering Kafka as a platform: Higher-level orchestration of Kafka to support our multi-cloud, multi-region, deployments on top of Kubernetes. A subset of current focuses include:
- Software automation that creates, manages, and destroys stateful Kafka clusters in our stateless Kubernetes environments
- APIs and controllers that support operation of kafka clusters at scale atop kubernetes
- Automation of replication and other cluster management concerns
- Promoting event driven architectures: Reddit is increasingly adopting geographically distributed, eventually consistent architectures. As part of this shift, many systems are shifting to event driven architectures, and the Messaging team is working to make this adoption simpler and faster. Current projects are:
- Schema Registries and enforcement
- Capacity management and ACLs through client enforced authentication
- GitOps and other developer experience tooling for Kafka interaction
- As a member of the Messaging team, your work will span these 2 domains, which are rich with challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems
- You will work with a team of engineers to develop a vision for asynchronous communication tooling
- Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world
- Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure
- Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Kafka and other messaging components
- Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit
- Automate critical aspects of the event driven development process
- Share on-call responsibilities
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
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 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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