Night Shift Software Engineer Reddit Jobs (NOW HIRING)

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.
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Who We Are:
The Infrastructure organization enables Reddit to deliver Reliability, Performance and Efficiency, with a single opinionated technology stack. The Content Platform team within Infrastructure additionally focuses on empowering product teams to build the best possible Content-related experiences, easily and reliably. This is a high-impact team that owns the Tier-0 services and core data models that power some of the most visible aspects of our product - viewing a feed, posting, commenting, upvoting - and we work closely with teams like Consumer, Ads, Feeds, Storage and Ranking. This team is also responsible for running and maintaining R2 - Reddit's monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit.
We are looking to hire a Staff software engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your unique insights into improving our operational posture as well as harmonizing feedback from customers will shape the future direction of our platform.
What You'll Do:As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the development of Content Platform at Reddit.

• Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit's products in Go and sometimes Python
• Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit's monolith legacy stack
• Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications..
• Own the design & evolution of our platform and build for the next 4+ years of continued scale and growth of Reddit
• Identify gaps in our current designs and lead redesigns of our platform to improve developer velocity and enable Reddit growth
• Work collaboratively with other software engineers from Infra and Product orgs
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate storage capabilities into broader storage infrastructure and use cases across Reddit.
• Mentor and guide other backend engineers across the company

Who You Might Be:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience building internet-scale software, distributed systems or platforms used by other developers
• BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java
• Prior experience and capability with scaled, high rate platform services, and API design. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how critical infra systems work at scale
• Demonstrated history of technical leadership, successfully guiding engineering teams to deliver impactful, high-quality solutions
• Exceptional communication skills with a strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Experience with (or curiosity to learn about) Kubernetes, gRPC, Cassandra, TiDB, Redis is a huge plus

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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 salary 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 salary range for this position is:
$217,000-$303,900 USD
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