Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Reddit, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 217,000 - 303,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restricted stock units

401(k) with employer match

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Generous time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to advance its storage infrastructure for a high-traffic platform serving hundreds of millions of users. You will own storage and caching infrastructure, collaborate with ML/AI and search teams, and drive robust tooling for reliability.

The role emphasizes distributed storage systems, scale, and mentorship, with opportunities to impact Reddit's product portfolio and engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software.
• Proficiency in Golang, Python, C++, or Java.
• Experience with distributed storage systems.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Java

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Postgres

MySQL

Cassandra

Redis

Memcache

Job description

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior 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 100,000+ 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 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 experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure.
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java.
• Hands‑on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
• Experience working closely with storage technologies like Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!

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 salary ranges for all U.S.-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 salary range for this position is:

• $217,000—$303,900 USD

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