Staff Software Engineer (Observability)

Location: Remote - United States

Salary: $217,000–$303,900 USD per year, plus equity and applicable commission.

Company

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

What you will do

• Build and maintain the foundational observability platform for Reddit's infrastructure.
• Improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of monitoring, logging, and tracing components.
• Develop and operate large-scale systems based on Prometheus, Thanos, Vector, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.
• Automate critical parts of event-driven development and contribute to the technical direction of eventing.
• Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshoot complex systems and software issues.
• Contribute changes upstream to the open-source projects used by the platform.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably infrastructure.
• Experience with distributed systems development and large-scale system engineering.
• Experience developing on Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across systems and software.
• Ability to track work, independently drive projects, and collaborate effectively with a service-oriented team.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, or Loki.
• Kubernetes controller or operator development experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with a flexible-first workforce.
• Comprehensive healthcare and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
• Family planning, gender-affirming care, mental health, coaching, professional development, caregiving, and workspace benefits.

Hiring process

• Interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI for select roles; candidates may opt out before scheduled interviews.