Software Engineer, Content Platform

3d•$164,200 - $229,900•Remote

About The Position

The Infrastructure organization enables Reddit to deliver Reliability, Performance and Efficiency, with a single opinionated technology stack. The Content Platform team within Infrastructure additionally focuses on empowering product teams to build the best possible Content-related experiences, easily and reliably. This is a high-impact team that owns the Tier-0 services and core data models that power some of the most visible aspects of our product - viewing a feed, posting, commenting, upvoting - and we work closely with teams like Consumer, Ads, Feeds, Storage and Ranking. This team is also responsible for running and maintaining R2 – Reddit’s monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit. We are looking to hire a Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your passion for building and maintaining high quality code, scaling Tier-0 infrastructure and building high-leverage platform services will enable our partner product teams to deliver tangible user value.

Requirements

3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java
Experience working with one or more databases like Cassandra, Postgres, Redis
Experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure like Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP
Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate with cross-functional teams

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with scaled, high rate platform services and API design is a plus

Responsibilities

Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products
Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’s monolith Python legacy stack
Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications
Develop judgment to identify and discuss gaps in our current platform; Help evolve it for next 2+ years of growth
Work collaboratively with wide variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit; actively engage in soliciting customer feedback
Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit
Continue improving your own technical abilities, acumen and soft skills