Data Platform Engineer: Scale Data & ML Pipelines

Reddit; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Flexible vacation & Reddit global days

Parental leave

Development funds

Volunteer time off

Workspace & home office benefits

Job summary

Reddit's Data Movement team is looking for a Software Engineer to design and maintain scalable data platforms that power ML and analytics across hundreds of millions of users. You will own critical components and improve throughput and reliability.

Proficiency in Python, Scala, Go, or Java, plus experience with Airflow, Kubernetes, Spark, Flink and CI/CD, is required. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and demonstrate leadership on large, data-intensive projects.

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.
• Experience working with cloud services and modern data infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems
• Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support ML and analytics workflows on data collected from hundreds of millions of users
• Own the Data Movement Platform used to enable batch and stream data processing at Reddit
• Invest in building new infrastructure for Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies at Reddit, including contributing to the open source community as needed
• Build automated solutions to minimize toilsome work for data users at Reddit and provide a declarative, self-service experience for working with data
• Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s Data Platform

Skills

Python

Scala

Go

Java

Tools

Airflow

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Spark

Flink

Job description

Reddit's Data Movement team is looking for a Software Engineer to design and maintain scalable data platforms that power ML and analytics across hundreds of millions of users. You will own critical components and improve throughput and reliability.

Proficiency in Python, Scala, Go, or Java, plus experience with Airflow, Kubernetes, Spark, Flink and CI/CD, is required. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and demonstrate leadership on large, data-intensive projects.