Staff Software Engineer, Storage (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer, Storage (AI): Enhancing Reddit's storage infrastructure through software and systems engineering, focusing on control and data planes to automate and improve operations. Focus on improving the performance of storage systems, application data models, and data access patterns, contributing to open-source projects, and collaborating with engineering teams.

Location: Remote - United States

Salary: $217,000 - $303,900 USD

Company

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to open and authentic conversations on the internet.

What you will do

• Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go, C++ and sometimes Python.
• Dive deep into the codebase of supported storage systems to understand system internals.
• Make system-level improvements, enhancements, and implement complex code modifications.
• Engage actively with the open-source community to implement and upstream changes to the OSS codebase.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of high-performance, large-scale distributed storage systems.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate storage capabilities into broader storage infrastructure.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure.
• Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages: Golang, Python, C++, Java.
• Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems.
• Experience contributing code improvements, features, and bug fixes to open-source (OSS) projects.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with operating a large-scale critical infrastructure system with a focus on automation and workflow development is a plus, especially in a role where they were required to be on call.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.
• 401k Match.
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off.
• Generous paid Parental Leave.
• Paid Volunteer time off.