Reddit

Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Reddit$217K — $303K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in building internet-scale software, focusing on machine learning storage infrastructure.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Golang, Python, C++, or Java.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems, including optimizations and bug fixes.
  • Track record of contributing to open-source software projects.
  • Experience in operating large scale critical infrastructure, involving automation and workflows is preferred.
  • Strong communication skills for collaboration within a service-oriented team.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver software to enhance the efficiency of Reddit's products.
  • Analyze and comprehend the internals of supported storage systems.
  • Implement system-level improvements and complex code modifications.
  • Engage with the open-source community to enhance the OSS codebase.
  • Contribute to the design of scalable distributed storage systems.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate storage capabilities across Reddit.
  • Mentor other engineers in designing and building vector storage services.

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
Full Job Description
The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems. Our caching layer serves 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys.We do this while efficiently storing 100s of Terabytes of data across thousands of machines. As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit's product growth. You'll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit's users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio. In your day-to-day, you can expect to: • Contribute to developing the team and organization's long term technical strategy. • Refine and maintain our data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users. • Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports data writes, reads and storage along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure. • Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit Who you might be: • 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure. • Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java • Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems. • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product. • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field. • Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus! 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 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: $217,000-$303,900 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

About Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits", which cover topics such as news, politics, religion, science, movies, video games, music, books, sports, fitness, cooking, pets, and image-sharing. Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Although there are strict rules prohibiting harassment, it still occurs, and Reddit administrators moderate the communities and close or restrict them on occasion. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not considered Reddit employees. As of September 2021, Reddit ranks as the 19th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the U.S., according to Alexa Internet. About 42–49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9–8.2% and Canada at 5.2–7.8%. Twenty-two percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 years, and 14 percent of U.S. adults aged 30 to 49 years, regularly use Reddit. Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, with Aaron Swartz, in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications. In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto. Their investment valued the company at $500 million then. In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder. In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion. In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion.
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