Backed by 500 Global.
About the role
As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the development and evolution of Reddit’s Ingestion Platform.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of hands-on experience building internet-scale distributed systems, data infrastructure, or platforms used by other developers
- BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages such as Go, Python, Java, or Scala
- Deep experience designing and operating high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines or platform services, including streaming and batch processing
- Experience with data movement patterns and systems such as Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Apache Iceberg, Flink, or comparable technologies
- Experience designing APIs and platform abstractions, including schema evolution, serialization formats such as Protocol Buffers, and service-to-service communication such as gRPC
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 .
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...
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