Senior Software Engineer - Release Infrastructure

About Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests hobbies and/or passions. Our mission is to bring community belonging and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit vote and comment on content stories and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information visit redditinc.com.

“The front page of the internet' Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests inviting them to share vote comment and create across thousands of communities.

About the role

The mission of the Developer Experience org is to design develop and support tools and processes that make common developer workflows efficient and reliable.

This role is specific to the Release Infrastructure team which owns continuous integration continuous deployment source control code review code search and a subset of internal developer tools.

Some of our present and future challenges include:

• Identifying and working on opportunities to improve developer efficiency confidence and service reliability.

• Building tools and infrastructure that makes writing testing and shipping code easy.

• Architecting and building the experience of continuous delivery for hundreds of engineers.

• Scaling our infrastructure and processes to serve a growing Reddit Engineering organization.

• Building a solid understanding of customer’s needs and identifying opportunities for improvements.

• Investigating building and integrating novel technologies (e.g. Generative AI) to solve problems for our developers.

As a senior engineer on this team you’ll be immediately responsible for building and driving a vision for our developer experience from the first line of code to the artifact released at the end of the process. You’ll draw on your technical expertise and leadership skills to ensure our developer tooling is smooth easy to use and provides maximum value to an ever growing engineering organization. You’ll look for ways to engage with the engineering org striving to understand users' pain points and perspectives and to incorporate their feedback into designs and plans presenting and sharing the team’s accomplishments.

What You’ll Do :

• Steer: Work with the team to select scope and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals.

• Build: Execute on a strategy and create a more performant more scalable higher quality architecture around developer experience including service frameworks development environments version control CI and deployment tooling.

• Amplify: Mentor coach and collaborate with other technical contributors

• Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering.

• Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience identifying and driving high impact projects that align with the company’s strategy.

• 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems and experience developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems.

• Experience working in the developer experience or developer productivity spaces and experience working on developer tools libraries and frameworks.

• Experience with CI / CD tools (Drone BuildKite Github Actions Argo Workflows/Rollouts/CD Temporal and other similar tools).

• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud providers (AWS GCP).

• A track record of leading large scale projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration.

• High empathy excellent communication skills and the ability to influence decisions while working across the entire engineering org.

• Strong focus on user experience usability scalability and quality.

• History of mentorship and technical leadership.

Bonuses:

• Go experience.

• Experience with Github Enterprise.

• Experience with mobile client CI/CD challenges.

• Experience with GraphQL REST HTTP gRPC.

• Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs.

• Experience with multi-region multi-provider deployments.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health benefits

• 401k Matching

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• Personal & Professional development funds

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

• 4+ months paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

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.