Staff Engineer - Data Processing / Messaging

October 1

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Reddit, Inc.

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Software Engineering • Full-Stack Engineering • Frontend Engineering • Backend Engineering • Social Media

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2005

👥 B2C

📱 Media

🌍 Social Impact

Description

• Reddit is a community of communities focused on shared interests and authentic conversations. • Join the Data Processing and Workflow Foundations team as a Staff Software Engineer. • Work at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. • Engage in engineering Kafka as a platform and promoting event-driven architectures. • Collaborate on automating critical aspects of the event-driven development process. • Deliver software to enhance the availability and efficiency of Kafka components. • Share on-call responsibilities with the engineering team.

Requirements

• 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 • 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.

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