Senior Software Engineer, Reddit

Deployment Infrastructure

$190.8-267.1k

+ RSU's

Kubernetes

Python

Rust

flux

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions

Job no longer available

Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Job no longer available

$190.8-267.1k

+ RSU's

Kubernetes

Python

Rust

flux

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ 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 Senior Software Engineer with a focus on creating robust, automated, deployment systems that balance reliability and efficiency
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

Top investors

57% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

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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