Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Location: Remote - United States

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

Company

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

What you will do

• Contribute to the long-term technical strategy for the Storage Infrastructure team and organization.
• Develop and maintain data storage and caching infrastructure supporting hundreds of millions of users.
• Own managed and self-hosted infrastructure for data reads, writes, storage, tooling, and automation.
• Improve systems handling hundreds of billions of keys and hundreds of terabytes of data across thousands of machines.
• Partner with engineering, data science, machine learning, product, and major internal users such as ML, AI, and Search.
• Mentor engineers in designing, building, and promoting services used across Reddit.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably focused on machine learning storage infrastructure.
• Software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages: Golang, Python, C++, or Java.
• Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes for distributed storage systems.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration with engineering, data science, machine learning, and product stakeholders.
• Degree in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field.

Nice to have

• Experience with Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, or Memcache.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for U.S.-based employees.
• 401(k) program with employer match.
• Generous vacation time and parental leave.
• Potential restricted stock units and commission depending on the position offered.
• Interview recording, transcription, and AI summarization may be used for select roles, with an option to opt out before scheduled interviews.

Hiring process

• Interview information may include identifiers, professional and employment-related information, and audio or video recordings.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified candidates with disabilities and disabled veterans.