Senior Software Engineer, Storage
Reddit- Base salary
- $217k–$304k Published base salary range
- Location
- Remote - United States Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Senior
About the job
About Reddit
Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet, with 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.
Role
The Storage Infra team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to solve large-scale storage infrastructure problems. The caching layer serves hundreds of millions of queries per second and stores hundreds of terabytes of data across thousands of machines. You will partner with the team and major users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that scale with Reddit's product growth while maintaining high availability and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the team and organization's long-term technical strategy.
- Refine and maintain data storage infrastructure to support storage and caching needs for products serving hundreds of millions of users.
- Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports data writes, reads, and storage, along with tooling and automation.
- Mentor other engineers on designing, building, and evangelizing services used by hundreds of engineers.
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.
- Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
- Experience with storage technologies like Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range: $217,000—$303,900 USD. Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position, may be eligible for a commission. Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.
Application
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