[Hiring] Software Engineer @Reddit

Role Description

This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.

We are looking to hire a Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your passion for building and maintaining high quality code, scaling Tier-0 infrastructure and building high-leverage platform services will enable our partner product teams to deliver tangible user value.

What You’ll Do:

• Work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems that comprise the Content Platform at Reddit.
• Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products.
• Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’s monolith Python legacy stack.
• Make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications.
• Develop judgment to identify and discuss gaps in our current platform; help evolve it for next 2+ years of growth.
• Work collaboratively with a wide variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit; actively engage in soliciting customer feedback.
• Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit.
• Continue improving your own technical abilities, acumen and soft skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java.
• Experience working with one or more databases like Cassandra, Postgres, Redis.
• Experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure like Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP.
• Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Prior experience with scaled, high rate platform services and API design is a plus.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.
• 401k Match.
• Family Planning Support.
• Gender-Affirming Care.
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits.
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off.
• Generous paid Parental Leave.
• Paid Volunteer time off.