Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Reddit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Observability (OBS) team. This team owns a suite of tools that allow engineers to understand their creations, based primarily on open-source solutions at scale. The role is fully remote and spans monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.

• 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.

• 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.

Base salary range: $217,000—$303,900 USD. Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, 401k with employer match, flexible vacation, paid parental leave, and more.