Staff Software Engineer (Ingestion Platform)

Location: Remote - United States

Base salary: $217,000–$303,900 USD per year, plus potential equity and commission depending on the position.

Company

Reddit is a large online community platform with more than 100,000 active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.

What you will do

• Lead the development and evolution of the ingestion platform for distributed streaming and batch data movement.
• Design and maintain control-plane and data-plane architecture, including APIs, controllers, connectors, schemas, target managers, and sink integrations.
• Expand ingestion paths to S3, GCS, and Apache Iceberg, while developing transformations, deduplication, dead-letter queues, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Build modular connectors and abstractions for Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Iceberg, Flink, and other data stores.
• Improve self-service workflows through safe defaults, automated provisioning, documentation, observability, and alerting.
• Lead migrations from legacy ingestion systems and establish reliability, security, deployment, monitoring, and incident-response practices across Kubernetes clusters.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on experience building internet-scale distributed systems, data infrastructure, or developer platforms.
• Strong software development experience in Go, Python, Java, Scala, or another general-purpose language.
• Deep experience with high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines, including streaming and batch processing.
• Experience with systems such as Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Apache Iceberg, Flink, or comparable technologies.
• Experience designing APIs and platform abstractions, including schema evolution, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, Kubernetes, controllers, workload identity, and multi-cluster deployments.
• Strong technical leadership, operational excellence, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building low-code or self-service developer platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work for U.S.-based employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) program with employer match.
• Vacation time and parental leave.
• Restricted stock unit eligibility and potential commission depending on the position.