Principal Software Engineer - Infra

The Infrastructure organization has the mission of building and delivering the compute orchestration environment storage and data systems and essential platform services behind all of Reddit.

We are looking to hire a backend software engineer to work collaboratively on a team dedicated to building out Reddit’s multi-cloud compute infrastructure. This is a high impact role where you will contribute to design implementation and operations for one of the largest sites in the world. The Compute team’s mission is to provide a platform for teams to independently and effectively run their compute workloads in a performant reliable and secure way.

The position is a mix of software engineering and devops; a lot of the time we are writing software to improve our compute infrastructure. But there is a substantial amount of troubleshooting and analysis to understand the real problems we face as we scale and our customer’s workloads change.

What you’ll do:

• Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers and systems engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.

• Design write and deliver software to improve the availability scalability latency and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go and sometimes Python.

• Guide and contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of the compute platform

• Automate critical aspects of the development process such as service creation and management as well as critical infrastructure operations.

• Mentor backend developers across the company.

• Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems

Who you might be:

• 10+ years of experience developing internet-scale software preferably in infrastructure roles.

• 8+ years experience with cloud infrastructure systems is a plus (Kubernetes AWS / GCE ecosystems).

• Experience in influencing larger (500+ engineers) organizations on technical direction/best practices.

• Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design product data teams to deliver great user experiences.

• Strong focus on user experience usability scalability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user and you have a deep intuition for how people think and how they interact with software at scale.

• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Python Go Rust Java C++.

• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.

Benefits:

• 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

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units and depending on the position offered it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally 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. To learn more please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .

To provide greater transparency to candidates we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function level and country location benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$260800—$365100 USD