Staff Software Engineer, Reddit

Observability

$206.7-289.4k

+ RSU's

Kubernetes
Prometheus
Grafana
loki
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Open for applications

Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Open for applications

$206.7-289.4k

+ RSU's

Kubernetes
Prometheus
Grafana
loki
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

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
  • Familiarity with distributed systems development, bonus if familiar with any of the specific tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, Loki)
  • 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

What the job involves

  • The Observability (OBS) team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development
  • This team own a suite of tools for allowing engineers to understand their creations, based primarily on open-source solutions at scale
  • We’re active users of and contributors to Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector and more
  • We run a monitoring stack at reddit that processes billions of data-points a minute. Our stack is one of the larger deployments in the world of Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana, and with this come unique challenges of scale for these systems. Fun problems include performance engineering on a distributed query system and product thinking around new features to remove the user pain from this stack
  • We also operate a hybrid system for logging that involves some open source (Vector) and SaaS for the search backend. The team is working to provide new features, and deliver more reliable, scalable logging in the future
  • We’re in the midst of releasing a tracing product for internal use at Reddit, based on OTEL, Clickhouse, and Grafana. There will be ongoing work to scale this platform and add features
  • As a member of the Observability team, your work will span these domains, which are rich with challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!
  • 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 observability 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
  • Contribute upstream changes to the open source projects we use

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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Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

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 values

  • Make something people love
  • Evolve
  • Work hard
  • Default open

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

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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