Staff Software Engineer, Reddit
Messaging Infrastructure
$206.7-289.4k
+ Restricted stock units
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$206.7-289.4k
+ Restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure
- Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and solutions, bonus if familiar with Kafka specifically or experience building large-scale infrastructure
- Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems
- Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus
- 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
- Experience navigating cross-functional migrations
- Experience mentoring other engineers
What the job involves
- The Messaging Infrastructure team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development
- This team’s challenges break into 2 domains, which we consider engineering Kafka as a platform and promoting event driven architectures
- Higher-level orchestration of Kafka to support our multi-cloud, multi-region, deployments on top of Kubernetes. A subset of current focuses include:
- Software automation that creates, manages, and destroys stateful Kafka clusters in our stateless Kubernetes environments
- APIs and controllers that support operation of kafka clusters at scale atop kubernetes
- Automation of replication and other cluster management concerns
- Promoting event driven architectures: Reddit is increasingly adopting geographically distributed, eventually consistent architectures. As part of this shift, many systems are shifting to event driven architectures, and the Messaging team is working to make this adoption simpler and faster. Current projects are:
- Schema Registries and enforcement
- Capacity management and ACLs through client enforced authentication
- GitOps and other developer experience tooling for Kafka interaction
- As a member of the Messaging team, your work will span these 2 domains, which are rich with challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems
- You will work with a team of engineers to develop a vision for asynchronous communication tooling
- 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 Kafka and other messaging components
- Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit
- Automate critical aspects of the event driven development process
- Share on-call responsibilities
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
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
- 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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