Staff Software Engineer, Reddit
Vector Storage
$217-303.9k
+ Equity (RSUs)
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Be an early applicant
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$217-303.9k
+ Equity (RSUs)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java
- Prior experience with Vector storage technologies is a huge plus (Milvus, Pinecone, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Weaviate, Pgvector)
- Prior experience with operating a large scale critical infrastructure system with a focus on automation and workflow development is a plus, especially in a role where they were required to be on call
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company
What the job involves
- The position is a mix of software engineering and cloud engineering; a lot of the time, we are writing software to implement important workflows that automate the operation of our vast production infrastructure
- We also work with our product teams to make the underlying Storage technologies work better for Reddit’s main workloads, including defining and improving the application’s data models and data access patterns, and lots of times
- This also involves data-driven analysis and tuning of the Storage stack to make step function improvements to the end-to-end data path
- There is a substantial amount of troubleshooting and analysis to understand the real problems we face as we scale, and our customer’s workloads change
- This role will design and implement reliable, efficient workflows to automate a wide range of operational tasks critical to managing Reddit’s core storage infrastructure
- Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go, C++ and sometimes Python
- Contribute to the design and implementation of a high-performance, large-scale distributed vector store to power search and machine learning applications
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate vector storage capabilities into broader storage infrastructure and use cases across Reddit
- Mentor and guide other engineers on how to design, build and evangelize vector storage services 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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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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