Senior Staff Software Engineer - Storage
The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Staff 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 Staff 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 technical leadership experience that includes both setting and delivering on long-term vision.
10+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java.
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!
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
#LI-remote, #LI-JS5
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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Storage
The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Staff 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 Staff 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 technical leadership experience that includes both setting and delivering on long-term vision.
10+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java.
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!
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
#LI-remote, #LI-JS5