Software Engineer

Details

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, hosting the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. With over 100,000 active communities and approximately 101 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver highly available centralized monitoring, logging, and alerting infrastructure used by every engineer at Reddit.
• Leverage and enhance open source technology to provide a centralized system for viewing and understanding the health of Reddit applications and infrastructure at scale.
• Build high availability stateless serving and ensure data consistency between multiple software systems.
• Work with high volume metrics and log data to build fault-tolerant and highly scalable pipelines for observability data.
• Lead adoption of new observability tools and practices across the engineering organization.
• Build and scale features and services needed to create real-time experiences.
• Telecommuting is an option; some travel to Reddit offices may be required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related quantitative discipline.
• Two years of experience in the offered job or related field.
• Skills in Linux, Golang, TCP/IP, GRPC.
• Experience with code performance evaluations and improvements.
• Implementation of application metrics.
• Ability to design and implement features.
• Experience in data collection, querying, and storage.
• Ability to translate business requirements into code.
• Experience replicating and fixing errors in programs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) match.
• Family planning support.
• Gender-affirming care.
• Mental health and coaching benefits.
• Flexible vacation and Reddit global days off.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Paid volunteer time off.

Additional Information

• Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units and potentially commissions.
• Base pay range for this position: $241,000 - $267,100 USD annually.
• Commitment to equal opportunity employment and accommodations for disabilities.