Staff Software Engineer, Reddit
Deployment Infrastructure
$217-303.9k
+ Equity
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$217-303.9k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience working in the infrastructure and/or deployment domain. Specifically with a focus on software engineering (as opposed to systems operations)
- Language proficiency in either Go (Preferred), Rust, or Python
- Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems
- Experience utilizing systems in the continuous delivery domain such as Argo, Flux, Temporal, and similar systems
- Strong troubleshooting competency ranging from higher-level orchestration concerns to lower-level runtime ones
- Experience designing large systems, scoping work, and building consensus with other engineers
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company
What the job involves
- The Deployment Infrastructure team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer with a focus on creating robust, automated, deployment systems that balance reliability and efficiency
- In this role you’ll be both a leader in designing our platform and a key contributor to the platform’s code base
- At Reddit, we aim to deploy our services globally. This involves taking release artifacts and ensuring they can be deployed via custom workflows across a variety of compute clusters. We aim to ensure that bad deployments can be automatically detected, rolled back, and minimize impact on our production systems
- At the same time, we need to ensure successful deployments can propagate across our infrastructure without human intervention
- Many companies achieve with operations teams that can write scripts and build pipelines. However, at Reddit, our scale and developers demand that we build our own software and integrate capable open-source tooling
- This means we are looking for individuals with a strong software engineering background to fill this role
- Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers build and deploy software capable of:
- Orchestrating complex deployment workflows
- Progressively rolling out services globally
- Achieving automated rollback of failed deployments
- Providing insight and monitoring around the health of deployments
- Work with our end-users to establish requirements and designs
- Integrate open source technologies, largely in the CNCF ecosystem and at times contribute to them to help meet Reddit’s business needs
- Build end user tooling, for example CLI utilities in Go that help interact with dashboards
- Share on-call responsibilities with the deployment infrastructure team
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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