Staff Software Engineer, Reddit
Observability
$217-303.9k
+ RSUs
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$217-303.9k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
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 an Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team owns 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 our open source tools, including Prometheus, Thanos, and more
- Our monitoring stack at Reddit processes billions of data-points a minute, delivering insights at scale. Reddit has one of the larger deployments of Prometheus and Thanos in the world , 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 operate a platform for logging based on Vector and Clickhouse that processes millions of logs a day for Reddit. Thousands of people at Reddit use this system every day as they maintain, deploy, and debug their code. Join us as we invest in this system to help users better understand the data they have
- Tracing at Reddit is based on OTEL, Clickhouse, and Grafana. It’s light on features, but currently processing tens of millions of events, and we will be building new ways for users to leverage and understand this data in the coming year
- 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
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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