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Software Engineer, Content Platform

Reddit · Remote - United States · Remote

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About Reddit

Backed by 500 Global.

About the role

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:

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

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

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...

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