Senior Software Engineer, Reddit
Data Processing & Workflow
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure roles
- Experience working with and preferably provisioning, operating and maintaining stream processing, batch processing and/or workflow systems such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow and/or Temporal.io
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages, such as Go, Python, Java, Scala, Rust, or C++
- Preferably experience contributing to open-source projects
- Excellent collaborative, communication and documentation skills
What the job involves
- Design, implement and maintain the systems that enable Reddit to operate at internet scale
- Design and build the frameworks and tooling to build messaging applications with a best-in-class developer experience
- Enable and support teams across all of Reddit to build real-time, streaming and batch processing applications
- Reddit is build your own adventure: You will be encouraged to identify opportunities for and affect positive change anywhere in the company
- Own and execute backend and infrastructure projects
- Design, implement, test, productionize and maintain
- Backend services,
- Batch and stream processing infrastructure,
- Batch and stream platforms,
- Standardized patterns, libraries, frameworks and tooling for building streaming, batch processing and other applications
- Support building a healthy engineering culture and uphold code quality, testing and best practices
- Partner with other world-class engineers, product, data, and other cross-functional partners to roll out our centralized messaging infrastructure across all of Reddit and to identify and implement state-of-the-art solutions to challenging problems
- Provide technical leadership in domain areas
- Contribute to company-wide forums, initiatives and open-source projects
- You will be encouraged and have the autonomy to propose and execute on your own projects and initiatives
- What You’ll Learn:
- How Reddit works on the inside
- How to design, build and maintain systems that operate reliably at a global scale
- How to design and build developer tooling for a high-quality development experience
- How to partner with a range of cross-functional teams to roll out technical programs
- How to build large-scale distributed systems, real-time stream and batch processing platforms
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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