Senior Software Engineer (Messaging)

• The Messaging Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale streaming infrastructure and distributed messaging infrastructure problems
• Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy
• Refine and maintain our messaging infrastructure to support the asynchronous communication of services supporting hundreds of millions of users
• Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports produce and consume requests along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
• Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
• Personal & professional development funds
• Paid volunteer time off
• Workspace & home office benefits

• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java
• Experience working closely with technologies like Kafka, and Kubernetes. Strimzi is a huge plus!
• Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed messaging systems
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field
• 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product