[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Observability @Reddit

Role Description

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

The Observability (OBS) team is looking to hire an Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team owns a suite of tools for allowing engineers to understand their creations, based primarily on open-source solutions at scale. We’re active users of and contributors to our open source tools, including Prometheus, Thanos, and more.

Your work will span the following domains:

• Monitoring: Our monitoring stack at Reddit processes billions of data-points a minute, delivering insights at scale. Reddit has one of the larger deployments of Prometheus and Thanos in the world, presenting unique challenges of scale for these systems.
• Logging: We operate a platform for logging based on Vector and Clickhouse that processes millions of logs a day for Reddit. Thousands of people at Reddit use this system every day as they maintain, deploy, and debug their code.
• Distributed Tracing: Tracing at Reddit is based on OTEL, Clickhouse, and Grafana. It’s light on features, but currently processing tens of millions of events, with plans to build new ways for users to leverage and understand this data.

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

• Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.
• Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
• Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit.
• Automate critical aspects of the event-driven development process.
• Share on-call responsibilities.
• Contribute upstream changes to the open source projects we use.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure.
• Familiarity with distributed systems development, bonus if familiar with any of the specific tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, Loki).
• 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.

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