Senior Software Engineer, Release Infrastructure

Posted 5 Days Ago
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Remote
191K-267K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
Senior Software Engineer role in the Release Infrastructure team at Reddit, responsible for improving developer efficiency, building tools for writing and shipping code, and architecting continuous delivery experiences.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 mission of the Developer Experience org is to design, develop, and support tools and processes that make common developer workflows efficient and reliable. This role is specific to the Release Infrastructure team, which owns continuous integration, continuous deployment, source control, code review, code search, and a subset of internal developer tools.

Some of our present and future challenges include:

  • Identifying and working on opportunities to improve developer efficiency, confidence, and service reliability.
  • Building tools and infrastructure that makes writing, testing, and shipping code easy.
  • Architecting and building the experience of continuous delivery for hundreds of engineers.
  • Scaling our infrastructure and processes to serve a growing Reddit Engineering organization.
  • Building a solid understanding of customer’s needs and identifying opportunities for improvements.
  • Investigating, building, and integrating novel technologies (e.g. Generative AI) to solve problems for our developers.

As a senior engineer on this team, you’ll be immediately responsible for building and driving a vision for our developer experience from the first line of code to the artifact released at the end of the process. You’ll draw on your technical expertise and leadership skills to ensure our developer tooling is smooth, easy to use, and provides maximum value to an ever growing engineering organization. You’ll look for ways to engage with the engineering org, striving to understand users' pain points and perspectives, and to incorporate their feedback into designs and plans, presenting and sharing the team’s accomplishments.

What You’ll Do:

  • Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals.
  • Build: Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture around developer experience, including service frameworks, development environments, version control, CI and deployment tooling.
  • Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors 
  • Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering.
  • Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.

You Have:

  • 5+ years of experience identifying and driving high impact projects that align with the company’s strategy.
  • 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems and experience developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems.
  • Experience working in the developer experience or developer productivity spaces, and experience working on developer tools, libraries, and frameworks.
  • Experience with CI / CD tools (Drone, BuildKite, Github Actions, Argo Workflows/Rollouts/CD, Temporal, and other similar tools).
  • Experience with Kubernetes and cloud providers (AWS, GCP).
  • A track record of leading large scale projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration.
  • High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence decisions while working across the entire engineering org.
  • Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, and quality.
  • History of mentorship and technical leadership.

Bonuses:

  • Go experience.
  • Experience with Github Enterprise.
  • Experience with mobile client CI/CD challenges.
  • Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC.
  • Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs.
  • Experience with multi-region, multi-provider deployments.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Health benefits
  • 401k Matching 
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
  • 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:

$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].

The Company
San Francisco, CA
1,900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

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.

Why Work With Us

At Reddit, you’ll help build something that encourages millions around the world to think more, do more, learn more, feel more– and maybe even laugh more.

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