Software Engineer, Content Platform

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.

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 Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your passion for building and maintaining high quality code, scaling Tier-0 infrastructure and building high-leverage platform services will enable our partner product teams to deliver tangible user value.

What You’ll Do

As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems that comprise the Content Platform at Reddit. You will also:

Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products

Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’s monolith Python legacy stack

Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications

Develop judgment to identify and discuss gaps in our current platform; Help evolve it for next 2+ years of growth

Work collaboratively with wide variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit; actively engage in soliciting customer feedback

Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit

Continue improving your own technical abilities, acumen and soft skills

Who You Might Be

3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience

Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java

Experience working with one or more databases like Cassandra, Postgres, Redis

Experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure like Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP

Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate with cross-functional teams

Prior experience with scaled, high rate platform services and API design is a plus