Staff Software Engineer, Observability at Scale (Remote)

EngineersOfAI; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Reddit's Observability (OBS) team is hiring an Engineer who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. You will work on a stack built on open-source tools at scale, including Prometheus, Thanos, and more, to help engineers understand their systems.

You will improve availability, latency, and efficiency of observability components, contribute to upstream OSS, and share on-call responsibilities while collaborating with a service-oriented team across the globe.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure.
• Experience with distributed systems development and the listed tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, OTel, Loki).
• Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit's infrastructure.
• Deliver software to improve availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability 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.
• Contribute upstream changes to the open source projects we use.

Skills

Distributed systems

Troubleshooting

Communication

Self-starting

Tools

Prometheus

Thanos

Grafana

Vector

Clickhouse

OTel

Loki

Kubernetes

Job description

Reddit's Observability (OBS) team is hiring an Engineer who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. You will work on a stack built on open-source tools at scale, including Prometheus, Thanos, and more, to help engineers understand their systems.

You will improve availability, latency, and efficiency of observability components, contribute to upstream OSS, and share on-call responsibilities while collaborating with a service-oriented team across the globe.