Staff Software Engineer, Messaging Infrastructure

Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 206,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Messaging Infrastructure team. This role focuses on engineering Kafka as a platform and promoting event-driven architectures. You will tackle complex challenges in infrastructure and software engineering, working collaboratively to improve the performance and scalability of messaging components. Your contributions will directly impact millions of users worldwide, making this an exciting opportunity to shape the future of communication at a leading online platform. If you're passionate about infrastructure and eager to innovate, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) program with employer match

Generous vacation time

Parental leave

Equity in the form of restricted stock units

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure.
• Experience with Kafka and Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers to maintain Reddit’s infrastructure platform.
• Deliver software to enhance Kafka's availability, scalability, and efficiency.

Skills

Asynchronous communication patterns

Troubleshooting capabilities

Cross-functional migrations

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

GitOps

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Messaging Infrastructure

Seattle, WA

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 Messaging Infrastructure team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team’s challenges break into 2 domains, which we consider engineering Kafka as a platform and promoting event driven architectures.

Engineering Kafka as a platform: Higher-level orchestration of Kafka to support our multi-cloud, multi-region, deployments on top of Kubernetes. A subset of current focuses include:

• Software automation that creates, manages, and destroys stateful Kafka clusters in our stateless Kubernetes environments.
• APIs and controllers that support operation of Kafka clusters at scale atop Kubernetes.
• Automation of replication and other cluster management concerns.

Promoting event driven architectures: Reddit is increasingly adopting geographically distributed, eventually consistent architectures. As part of this shift, many systems are shifting to event driven architectures, and the Messaging team is working to make this adoption simpler and faster. Current projects are:

• Schema Registries and enforcement.
• Capacity management and ACLs through client enforced authentication.
• GitOps and other developer experience tooling for Kafka interaction.

As a member of the Messaging team, your work will span these 2 domains, which are rich with challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems. You will work with a team of engineers to develop a vision for asynchronous communication tooling. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

• Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.
• Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Kafka and other messaging components.
• Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit.
• Automate critical aspects of the event driven development process.
• Share on-call responsibilities.

You have:

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure.
• Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and solutions, bonus if familiar with Kafka specifically or experience building large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
• Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software.
• Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and being a self-starter on projects.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.
• Experience navigating cross-functional migrations.
• Experience mentoring other engineers.

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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:

$206,700 - $289,400 USD

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

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