Reddit

Staff Software Engineer , Observability

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$217k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for Reddit’s infrastructure.
  • Deliver software that improves 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 event-driven development.
  • Share on-call responsibilities.
  • Contribute upstream changes to the open-source projects used by the team.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems development and observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and Loki.
  • Experience developing on Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
  • Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a strong plus.
  • Strong troubleshooting capabilities across systems and software.
  • Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and independently driving projects.
  • Excellent communication skills for collaboration with a service-oriented team and company.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with a flexible-first workforce
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving
  • Family planning support
  • Gender-affirming care
  • Mental health and coaching benefits
  • Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off
  • Generous paid parental leave

Tech Stack

ClickHouseGrafanaKubernetesPrometheus

Categories

Reddit

About Reddit

5,001-10,000 employees

Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.

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