Senior Staff Software Engineer - Storage

The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Staff 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 100000+ 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 Staff 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.

In your day-to-day you can expect to:

• 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

Who you might be:

• 5+ years of technical leadership experience that includes both setting and delivering on long-term vision.

• 10+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean maintainable and well-tested code.

• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering data science machine learning and product.

• Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go C++ or Java.

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.

• Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres Mysql Cassandra Redis Memcache is a huge plus!

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

• 401k Matching

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• Personal & Professional development funds

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days

• 4+ months paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

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