Data Ingestion Platform Engineer

Reddit; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs that fit your

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer TIm

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Ingestion Platform team, tackling large-scale data movement across streaming and batch workloads. You will shape the control and data planes, build connectors for Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Iceberg, and more, and deliver safe, scalable, and observable pipelines.

Collaborate with Infrastructure, Data Platform, Ads, ML, and partnered groups to migrate legacy systems, ensure security and reliability, and enable Reddit's continued growth while

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems, diligently monitoring project progress, and showcasing proactive leadership as a self-starter on diverse projects.
• Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink and/or working with modern cloud-based infrastructure.
• Excellent communication skills tailored for effective collaboration within both a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context.

Responsibilities

• Design, write, and deliver reliable software for distributed data movement across streaming and batch workloads, with a focus on availability, scalability, latency, correctness, and cost efficiency.
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of the platform's control plane and data plane, including pipeline APIs, controllers, connectors, target managers, schemas, and sink integrations.
• Expand the platform beyond Kafka-to-BigQuery by helping deliver production-ready paths to S3/GCS and Apache Iceberg, as well as transformations, deduplication, dead-letter queues, and other reusable capabilities.
• Build high-quality connectors and abstractions for systems such as Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Iceberg, Flink, and other data stores, while keeping the platform modular and easy to extend.
• Improve the self-service experience for platform users through clear APIs, safe defaults, automated provisioning, documentation, onboarding workflows, and actionable observability and alerting.
• Lead migrations from bespoke and legacy ingestion systems to the Ingestion Platform, partnering with teams such as Ads Data Platform and ML Indexing to make migrations safe, incremental, and low-touch.
• Establish strong reliability, security, and operational practices for pipelines running across Kubernetes clusters, including schema evolution, workload identity, permissions, deployment safety, monitoring, and incident response.
• Identify gaps in the platform's architecture and product experience, and lead redesigns that improve developer velocity and enable Reddit's continued growth.
• Work collaboratively with engineers and stakeholders across Infrastructure, Data Platform, Product, Ads, ML, Storage, and partner teams to align roadmaps and deliver durable solutions.

Skills

Python

Scala

Go

Java

Tools

Airflow

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Spark

Flink

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Ingestion Platform team, tackling large-scale data movement across streaming and batch workloads. You will shape the control and data planes, build connectors for Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Iceberg, and more, and deliver safe, scalable, and observable pipelines.

Collaborate with Infrastructure, Data Platform, Ads, ML, and partnered groups to migrate legacy systems, ensure security and reliability, and enable Reddit's continued growth while