Senior Software Engineer (Storage)
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- The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems
- As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth. You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio
- Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy
- Refine and maintain our data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users
- Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports data writes, reads and storage along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure
- Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit
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
- 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field
- Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product
- 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