Reddit

Software Engineer - Data Movement Platform

Reddit$164K — $229K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of software engineering experience in production settings
  • Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java
  • Expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems
  • Experience with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, and Flink
  • Strong communication skills for team collaboration and broader organizational engagement

Responsibilities

  • Refine and maintain data infrastructure technologies for ML and analytics
  • Own the Data Movement Platform for batch and stream data processing
  • Build new infrastructure for technologies like Spark, Flink, and Airflow
  • Develop automated solutions for a self-service data experience
  • Collaborate on monitoring and alerting for reliability and scalability

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs for workspace and professional development
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave
Full Job Description
The Data Movement team is looking to hire a Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale data platform and efficiency challenges.

Our community of users generates over 100B events per day, each of which is ingested into a data warehouse that sees 55,000+ daily queries. We utilize this data to enable both batch and streaming based ML and BI workloads at the company. Critical teams such as ads, feed generation, and ML experimentation rely on the Data Platform to generate revenue for Reddit. The Data Movement team within this group is specifically responsible for empowering the business to more efficiently process data and orchestrate these data workloads.

As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems. You will also also:
  • Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support ML and analytics workflows on data collected from hundreds of millions of users.
  • Own the Data Movement Platform used to enable batch and stream data processing at Reddit.
  • Invest in building new infrastructure for Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies at Reddit, including contributing to the open source community as needed.
  • Build automated solutions to minimize toilsome work for data users at Reddit and provide a declarative, self-service experience for working with data.
  • Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit's Data Platform.

If you have a passion for building and maintaining high quality code, want to improve how Reddit makes strategic decisions at the company level, and are excited about applying engineering best practices to one of the most powerful corpus of data in the world, then this is the team for you!

Who you might be:
  • 2+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java.
  • Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems, diligently monitoring project progress, and showcasing proactive leadership as a self-starter on diverse projects.
  • Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink and/or working with modern cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Excellent communication skills tailored for effective collaboration within both a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context.

Benefits:
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave


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:

$164,200-$229,900 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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