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The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems.
Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
Our caching layer serves 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys.We do this while efficiently storing 100s of Terabytes of data across thousands of machines. As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth. You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.
In your day-to-day, you can expect to:
- Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.
- Refine and maintain our data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users.
- Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports data writes, reads and storage along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure.
- Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit
Who you might be:
- 5+ 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
- Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
- Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!
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/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
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