Software Engineer - Data Movement Platform

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

The Data Movement team is looking to hire a Software Engineer excited to solve large scale data platform and efficiency challenges. The team is responsible for empowering the business to more efficiently process data and orchestrate data workloads. As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems.

• Refine and maintain data infrastructure technologies to support ML and analytics workflows on data collected from hundreds of millions of users.
• Own the Data Movement Platform used to enable batch and stream data processing at Reddit.
• Invest in building new infrastructure for Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies at Reddit, including contributing to the open source community as needed.
• Build automated solutions to minimize toilsome work for data users and provide a declarative, self-service experience for working with data.
• Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s Data Platform.

• 2+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems, monitoring project progress, and proactive leadership as a self-starter.
• Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink and/or modern cloud-based infrastructure.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration within a service-oriented team and broader organization.

• 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

Base salary range: $164,200—$229,900 USD. Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units, and possibly commission. U.S.-based employees also receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.