Staff Software Engineer, Observability Platform (Remote)

Reddit, Inc.

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 217,000 - 304,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Global benefit programs

Family planning support

Mental health & coaching

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking an Observability Engineer who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. You will contribute to the monitoring and logging stack used by thousands of engineers worldwide, delivering scalable insights across services.

Join a team driving data-driven decisions with open source tools like Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, and Clickhouse. This is a fully remote role offering equity considerations and extensive benefits.

Qualifications

7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software.
Experience with distributed systems and scalable infrastructure.
Familiarity with Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, or related open-source tools.
Experience operating on Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with software engineers to build and maintain the foundational platform for Reddit’s infrastructure.
Deliver software to improve the 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 OSS we use.