Software Engineer, Content Platform

This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.

Who We Are:
The Infrastructure organization enables Reddit 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 – Reddit’s monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit.

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 Reddit. You will also:

• Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products
• Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’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 Reddit; 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 Reddit
• 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 & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

 

 

This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.

Who We Are:
The Infrastructure organization enables Reddit 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 – Reddit’s monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit.

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 Reddit. You will also:

• Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products
• Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’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 Reddit; 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 Reddit
• 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 & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off