Senior Software Engineer, Storage
About The Position
The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems. Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com. Our caching layer serves 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys.We do this while efficiently storing 100s of Terabytes of data across thousands of machines. As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth. You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!
Responsibilities
- Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.
- Refine and maintain our data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users.
- Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports data writes, reads and storage along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure.
- Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- generous time off for vacation
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
