Senior Software Engineer, Caching

2 Hours ago • 5 Years + • $190,800 PA - $267,100 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on a mix of software and cloud engineering, automating the operation of vast production infrastructure. You'll collaborate with product teams to enhance underlying Storage technologies, improve data models, and analyze the Storage stack. You'll be responsible for efficiently storing terabytes of data and ensuring high availability and reliability for Reddit users. You'll design and deliver software in Go and sometimes Python to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products. You will also contribute to caching mechanisms for high-performance, large-scale storage systems and collaborate to incorporate caching solutions into broader storage system use cases.

Must have:

5+ years of experience developing internet-scale software.
Experience in one or more general purpose programming languages.
Prior experience with Storage technologies is a plus.

Good to have:

Experience with operating a large scale critical infrastructure system.
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a team and company.

Perks:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
401k Matching
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal & Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days
4+ months paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off

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Job Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The position is a mix of software engineering and cloud engineering; a lot of the time, we are writing software to implement important workflows that automate the operation of our vast production infrastructure.

You will also work with our product teams to make the underlying Storage technologies work better for Reddit’s main workloads, including defining and improving the application’s data models and data access patterns, and lots of times, this also involves data-driven analysis and tuning of the Storage stack to make step function improvements to the end-to-end data path. Our caching layer servers 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys. We are responsible for efficiently storing 100s of terabytes of data. 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.

A successful candidate will;

Develop reliable and efficient workflows to automate a large number of operational tasks that are essential to operating the critical Storage infrastructure for Reddit.
Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go and sometimes Python.
Contribute to the design and implementation of caching mechanisms for high-performance, large-scale storage systems.
Collaborate closely with team members and stakeholders to incorporate caching solutions to broader storage system use cases.

Who You Might Be:

5+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in storage infrastructure roles.
Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, Java, C++
Prior experience with Storage technologies is a plus (Redis, Valkey, Memcached, Cassandra, Postgres, MySQL, Zookeeper).
Prior experience with operating a large scale critical infrastructure system with a focus on automation and workflow development is a plus, especially in a role where they were required to be oncall.
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.

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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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:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.