Software Engineer, Reddit
$229-267.1k
Plus equity
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$229-267.1k
Plus equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any field) or related quantitative discipline and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation
- Backend services design and development in Java, Go or Python
- Distributed, horizontally scalable backend system design for high-traffic production workloads (e.g., real-time ad serving)
- Service-to-service API design using RPC or HTTP-based frameworks (e.g., gRPC, Thrift, GQL)
- Deployment and operation of production services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including container orchestration platforms (e.g., Amazon ECS or Kubernetes)
- Data modeling and schema design for relational and NoSQL datastores (e.g., MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB), including query optimization and indexing
- A/B testing and feature-flagged experimentation in production environments
- Production observability instrumentation, including metrics, logs, and request tracing (e.g., Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray), for incident diagnosis and resolution
- Automated unit, integration, and functional testing integrated into continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
- Backend system development in digital advertising technology, including ad ingestion, ad serving, or ad-targeting workflows; and
- Technical design and end-to-end delivery leadership of multi-quarter projects, including authoring technical design documents and driving cross-functional execution with product, data, and platform partners
What the job involves
- Collaborate with product managers to design and implement Ads products
- Work closely with the platform and data teams while building new features
- Lead the processes needed to improve operational stability, including improving code quality, delivering dashboards and data visualizations
- Build extensible components that align with the product objectives
- Support day-to-day project management tasks, including communicating project updates, managing project timelines, and overseeing project execution
- Design, develop, and operate backend microservices and APIs that power ads, including resolution, validation, and transformation across the advertising data models
- Build and maintain distributed, horizontally scalable backend systems that serve high-volume production traffic, including data storage, caching, and instrumentation for observability and reliability
- Design and execute A/B experiments and feature rollouts to evaluate product changes, and partner with data science teams to measure ad performance and inform product decisions
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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