Software Engineer

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

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 our underlying networking technologies work better for Reddit’s main workloads, including their load balancing, retry strategies, service-to-service communication and lots of times, this also involves data-driven analysis and tuning of the networking stack to make step function improvements to the end-to-end request 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.

A successful candidate will;

• Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers and systems engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.
• Develop reliable and efficient workflows to automate a large number of operational tasks that are essential to operating the critical Transport infrastructure for Reddit.
• Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go and sometimes Python.
• Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of Transport infrastructure

Who You Might Be:

• 3 years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure roles.
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, Java, C++
• Prior experience with networking technologies is a plus (Envoy, Contour, Nginx, CDNs, GRPC, Service meshes like Istio, Cilium etc especially operating on Kubernetes)
• 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 oncall.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit [https://www.redditinc.com/careers/>.

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The base pay range for this position is:

$164,200 - $229,900 USD

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