Senior Software Engineer, Reddit
Data Platform
$190.8-267.1k
+ Restricted stock units
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Open for applications
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$190.8-267.1k
+ Restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
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!
- 4+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python and Scala, with expertise in SQL languages like BigQuery, SparkSQL or Postgres
- 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, terraform, airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and 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 Platform team is looking to hire a Software Engineer who is excited about building Reddit’s next generation Data Warehouse Platform to support a rapidly growing business with an ever expanding number of use cases. A subset of current focuses include:
- Managing BigQuery + Airflow infrastructure for the entire company
- Designing clear interfaces and self-service tooling to enable both technical and non technical users to interact with the DW platform
- Optimizing cost efficiency within the warehouse and building robust solutions for cost attribution
- Building opinionated guardrails to drive improvements in data quality, cost efficiency, and data governance
- Developing APIs and controllers to maintain the state of our IAM, compute, and storage resources
- Building software automation to simplify the ingestion of data into the system and the consumption of downstream data and metadata
- Collaborate effectively with a team of proficient software engineers to develop and maintain the fundamental platform that powers the cutting-edge Reddit's data warehouse infrastructure
- Engage in the complete data lifecycle at Reddit, participating in the development process and working with one of the world's most extensive and data-rich datasets
- Design, Build and Deliver end-to-end data solutions to improve the reliability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Reddit’s Data Platform
- Implement automation for key elements of the development process, including data quality, managing alerts and handling critical infrastructure operations
- Collaborate and Share on-call responsibilities, including incident management, with the Data Warehouse team
- Guide and support fellow engineers within the team by serving as a mentor, while actively contributing to the sharing of knowledge through training sessions and comprehensive documentation
Our take
Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.
The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.
Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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