Software Engineer, Reddit
Data Movement Platform
$164.2-229.9k
+ Restricted stock units
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Open for applications
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$164.2-229.9k
+ Restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- If you have a passion for building and maintaining high quality code, want to improve how Reddit makes strategic decisions at the company level, and are excited about applying engineering best practices to one of the most powerful corpus of data in the world, then this is the team for you!
- 2+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems, diligently monitoring project progress, and showcasing proactive leadership as a self-starter on diverse projects
- Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink and/or working with modern cloud-based infrastructure
- Excellent communication skills tailored for effective collaboration within both a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context
What the job involves
- The Data Movement team is looking to hire a Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale data platform and efficiency challenges
- Our community of users generates over 100B events per day, each of which is ingested into a data warehouse that sees 55,000+ daily queries
- We utilize this data to enable both batch and streaming based ML and BI workloads at the company
- Critical teams such as ads, feed generation, and ML experimentation rely on the Data Platform to generate revenue for Reddit
- The Data Movement team within this group is specifically responsible for empowering the business to more efficiently process data and orchestrate these data workloads
- As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems
- Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support ML and analytics workflows on data collected from hundreds of millions of users
- Own the Data Movement Platform used to enable batch and stream data processing at Reddit
- Invest in building new infrastructure for Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies at Reddit, including contributing to the open source community as needed
- Build automated solutions to minimize toilsome work for data users at Reddit and provide a declarative, self-service experience for working with data
- Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s Data Platform
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.
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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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