Staff Software Engineer, Reddit

Caching

$206.7-289.4k

Plus equity

Java
Redis
Go
Postgres
Cassandra
C++
MySQL
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Be an early applicant

Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Be an early applicant

$206.7-289.4k

Plus equity

Java
Redis
Go
Postgres
Cassandra
C++
MySQL
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • 7+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product
  • Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field
  • Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!

What the job involves

  • The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Staff software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems
  • Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy
  • Refine and maintain our data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users
  • Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports data writes, reads and storage along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure
  • Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit

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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back within 2 weeks

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

  • 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

Leadership

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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