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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
The Developer Platform - Data Products team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale batch and streaming data challenges.
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 community of users generates over 100B analytics events per day, each of which is ingested by the Data Infrastructure team into a data warehouse that sees 55,000+ daily queries. We utilize this data to enable both batch and streaming data usage at the company. The team also owns our Streaming Platform that is build using Kafka.
As a senior engineer, you will help develop our Snapshot product used to deliver high quality data to partners. You will partner with teams around Reddit to create and execute a strategy to ensure data quality and consistency at scale.
In your day-to-day, you can expect to:
- Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support batch and real-time processing of hundreds of millions of users.
- Own the tools we use to ingest, store and improve data quality.
- Design, Build and Deliver end-to-end data solutions to improve the reliability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Reddit’s Data Platform.
- Implement automation for key elements of the development process, including data quality, managing alerts and handling critical infrastructure operations.
- Guide and support fellow engineers within the team by serving as a mentor, while actively contributing to the sharing of knowledge through training sessions and comprehensive documentation.
Who you might be:
- 4+ 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 programming languages such as Scala, Go, Java, or Python with expertise in SQL languages like BigQuery, SparkSQL or Postgres.
- Experience working with Terraform, Helm, Kafka, Flink, CDC, Airflow, Prometheus, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Excellent communication skills tailored for effective collaboration within both a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context
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
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:
$190,800—$267,100 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 [email protected].
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What We Do
Reddit is a community of millions of users engaging in the creation of content and the sharing of conversation across tens of thousands of topics. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.
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