[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer - Messaging @Reddit

Role Description

The Messaging Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale streaming infrastructure and distributed messaging infrastructure problems.

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 messaging infrastructure to support the asynchronous communication of services supporting hundreds of millions of users.
• Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports produce and consume requests along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience working closely with technologies like Kafka, and Kubernetes. Strimzi is a huge plus!
• Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed messaging systems.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave