Description
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Build and Code Platform team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be directly responsible for cultivating the developer experience, from initial code creation to the final built artifact. You'll draw on your technical expertise and leadership skills to ensure our developer tooling is smooth, easy to use, and provides maximum value to an ever-growing engineering organization.
Responsibilities: Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high-leverage projects that accelerate development to help Reddit achieve its goals. Build: Execute on a strategy to create a developer experience that reduces toil and provides faster and higher-quality feedback around all parts of the SDLC, including source control, builds, testing, code review, code integration, knowledge search, and more. Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors. Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit Engineering. Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.
Requirements: 7+ years of experience identifying, driving, and executing high-impact projects that align with the company's strategy. 5+ years of experience working in developer experience, infrastructure, or platform teams, and experience working on developer tools, libraries, and frameworks. 5+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems and experience developing and improving highly scalable and reliable systems. Experience with CI/CD tools (Drone, BuildKite, Github Actions, Bazel, Argo Workflows/Rollouts/CD, Temporal, and other adjacent tools). Experience with Kubernetes and cloud providers (AWS, GCP). A track record of leading large-scale technical projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration. The ability to disambiguate complex problems, align stakeholders, and aggressively prioritize to execute on projects effectively. Excellent communication skills that you employ to drive toward consensus, navigate disagreements, influence decisions and priorities, and empower others. A strong sense of empathy, curiosity, and humility that drive a desire to deeply understand developer pain points, continuously improve systems, and ultimately deliver a delightful user experience. A history of mentorship and technical leadership.
Preferred qualifications include: Go experience. Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC. Experience with Github Enterprise Server. Experience with mobile client CI/CD challenges (Bitrise, MacStadium, Orka, Gradle). Experience designing and implementing platforms. Experience with multi-region, multi-provider deployments.