Staff Software Engineer, Reddit
Storage
$217-303.9k
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Be an early applicant
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$217-303.9k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java
- Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems
- Experience contributing code improvements, features and bug fixes to open-source (OSS) projects
- 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 on call
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company
What the job involves
- The position is a blend of software engineering and systems engineering, with a strong focus on building and evolving control and data planes, improving underlying systems, and writing software that implements critical workflows to automate and enhance the operation of our large-scale storage infrastructure
- We 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
- There is a substantial amount of troubleshooting and analysis to understand the real problems we face as we scale, and our customer’s workloads change
- Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go, C++ and sometimes Python
- Dive deep into the codebase of supported storage systems to understand system internals
- Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications
- Engage actively with the open-source community to implement and upstream changes to the OSS codebase
- Contribute to the design and implementation of high-performance, large-scale distributed storage systems to power various use cases at Reddit
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate storage capabilities into broader storage infrastructure and use cases across Reddit
- Mentor and guide other engineers on how to design, build and evangelize vector storage services across Reddit
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 100,000 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 52M daily users and more than 50B monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddits 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,m 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
(Co-Founder & CEO)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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