Description
We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our BE Platform team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in building and evolving control and data planes, improving underlying systems, and writing software that implements critical workflows to automate and enhance the operation of our large-scale storage infrastructure.
Your responsibilities will include designing, writing, and delivering software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit's products in Go, C++, and sometimes Python. You will dive deep into the codebase of supported storage systems to understand system internals, make system-level improvements, enhancements, and implement complex code modifications. You will engage actively with the open-source community to implement and upstream changes to the OSS codebase.
You will contribute to the design and implementation of high-performance, large-scale distributed storage systems to power various use cases at Reddit. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate storage capabilities into broader storage infrastructure and use cases across Reddit. You will mentor and guide other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize vector storage services across Reddit.
The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure. They will have software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, such as Golang, Python, C++, or Java. They will have hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems. They will have experience contributing code improvements, features, and bug fixes to open-source projects.
Additionally, the ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company. They will be able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including comprehensive healthcare benefits, income replacement programs, 401(k) match, family planning support, gender-affirming care, mental health and coaching benefits, flexible vacation, Reddit global days off, generous paid parental leave, and paid volunteer time off.