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- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
Reddit’s Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems.
Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions.
Their caching layer serves 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys, while efficiently storing 100s of Terabytes of data across thousands of machines. As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar.
Responsibilities
In your day-to-day, you can expect to:
- Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.
- Refine and maintain data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users.
- Own infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports data writes, reads and storage along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure.
- Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit.
Requirements
Who you might be:
- 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure.
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages: Golang, Python, C++, Java.
- Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
- Experience working closely with storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus.
Pay Transparency
The base salary range for this position is:
- $217,000 - $303,900 USD
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. Reddit also provides benefits to U.S.-based employees including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.
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