Software Engineer (Content Platform)

• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits

• Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off

• Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave

• Personal & professional development funds

• Paid volunteer time off

• Workspace & home office benefits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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