Software Engineer, Content Platform

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 164,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Benefits

401k Match

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching

Flexible Vacation & Global Days off

Parental Leave

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Reddit is hiring a Software Engineer to help scale the Content Platform and Tier-0 services within Infrastructure. You will design and implement high-quality Go and Python services, work on a monolith legacy stack, and collaborate across cross-functional teams to improve reliability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit's products.

The role emphasizes building scalable, fault-tolerant systems, participating in on-call rotations, and contributing to platform evolution for the next 2+ years.

Job description

the company 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, the company users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, the company is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

This role is remote friendly. the company has a flexible first workforce.

Who We Are:

The Infrastructure organization enables the company to deliver Reliability, Performance and Efficiency, with a single opinionated technology stack. The Content Platform team within Infrastructure additionally focuses on empowering product teams to build the best possible Content-related experiences, easily and reliably. This is a high-impact team that owns the Tier-0 services and core data models that power some of the most visible aspects of our product - viewing a feed, posting, commenting, upvoting - and we work closely with teams like Consumer, Ads, Feeds, Storage and Ranking. This team is also responsible for running and maintaining R2 – the company’s monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at the company.

We are looking to hire a Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your passion for building and maintaining high quality code, scaling Tier-0 infrastructure and building high-leverage platform services will enable our partner product teams to deliver tangible user value.

What You’ll Do:

As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems that comprise the Content Platform at the company. You will also:

• Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the company’s products

• Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of the company’s monolith Python legacy stack

• Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications

• Develop judgment to identify and discuss gaps in our current platform; Help evolve it for next 2+ years of growth

• Work collaboratively with wide variety of cross-functional teams across the company; actively engage in soliciting customer feedback

• Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the company

• Continue improving your own technical abilities, acumen and soft skills

Who You Might Be:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

• BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience

• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java

• Experience working with one or more databases like Cassandra, Postgres, Redis

• Experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure like Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP

• Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate with cross-functional teams

• Prior experience with scaled, high rate platform services and API design is a plus

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k Match

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & the company Global Days off

• Generous paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

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, the company 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 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 salary range for this position is:

$164,200—$229,900 USD

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*the company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. the company 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.*