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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage

unlimited holidays - extra parental leave - work from home - fully flexible

Remote:

Full Remote

Salary:

233 - 326K yearly

Experience:

Expert & Leadership (>10 years)

Work from:

Washington (USA), United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

5+ years of technical leadership experience, 10+ years of coding experience in production, Proficiency in Go, C++, or Java, Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Key responsabilities:

Develop the team's long-term technical strategy
Maintain data storage infrastructure for millions of users
Own managed and self-hosted infrastructure
Mentor engineers on design and services

Reddit Internet Unicorn http://redditinc.com

1001 - 5000 Employees

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Job description

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 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

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

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

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. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$232,500—$325,500 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.