Senior Staff Software Engineer - Storage

Full-time
USA
$232k-$326k per year
Posted 1 year ago
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The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Staff 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. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Our caching layer serves 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys.We do this while efficiently storing 100s of Terabytes of data across thousands of machines. As a Senior Staff engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth. You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

  • Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.

  • Refine and maintain our data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users.

  • Own the 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

Who you might be:

  • 5+ years of technical leadership experience that includes both setting and delivering on long-term vision.

  • 10+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.

  • Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java.

  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field. 

  • Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

  • 401k Matching

  • Workspace benefits for your home office

  • Personal & Professional development funds

  • Family Planning Support

  • Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days

  • 4+ months paid Parental Leave

  • Paid Volunteer time off

#LI-remote, #LI-JS5

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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Storage

The job listing has expired. Unfortunately, the hiring company is no longer accepting new applications.

To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs

The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Staff 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. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Our caching layer serves 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys.We do this while efficiently storing 100s of Terabytes of data across thousands of machines. As a Senior Staff engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth. You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

  • Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.

  • Refine and maintain our data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users.

  • Own the 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

Who you might be:

  • 5+ years of technical leadership experience that includes both setting and delivering on long-term vision.

  • 10+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.

  • Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java.

  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field. 

  • Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

  • 401k Matching

  • Workspace benefits for your home office

  • Personal & Professional development funds

  • Family Planning Support

  • Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days

  • 4+ months paid Parental Leave

  • Paid Volunteer time off

#LI-remote, #LI-JS5