Senior Software Engineer, Reddit
Compute Platform & Orchestration
$190.8-267.1k
Eligible to receive equity in the form of 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
Eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure
- Language proficiency in Go
- Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems
- Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus
- Proficiency operating Linux with a solid understanding around cgroups, namespaces, other multi-tenancy primitives
- 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 Compute team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team’s challenges break into 2 domains, which we consider platform engineering and cluster engineering
- Platform Engineering: Higher-level orchestration of both compute capacity and workload primitives to support our multi-cloud, multi-region, deployments. A subset of current focuses include:
- Software automation that creates, manages, and destroys clusters in our fleet
- APIs and controllers that support multi-cluster deployment and scheduling mechanics
- Core SDKs that enable controller development in the larger organization
- Software that codifies out-of-cluster ancillary concerns such as network configurations and managed services
- Cluster Engineering: Intra-cluster engineering problems involving balancing performance, efficiency, and stability. A subset of current focuses include
- Detection of node-level performance characteristics and making availability decisions based on the data
- Schedulers that support more efficient packing of resources along with reactive rescheduling on the basis of changing compute availability
- Kubernetes controllers that offer APIs in the cluster and perform reconciliation to reach a desired state
- Cluster upgrades, both mechanical process concerns and automation
- As a member of the Compute team, your work will span these 2 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 Reddit’s Compute Platform
- Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of the compute platform
- Automate critical aspects of the development process such as service creation and management, as well as critical infrastructure operations
- Share on-call responsibilities with the Compute team
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
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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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