# Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion Platform at Reddit

- Company: Reddit
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://www.redditinc.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8205402
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/reddit-staff-software-engineer-ingestion-platform/

## 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

Tags: Platform and Apps