Staff DevPlatform Software Engineer

• We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer with a unique blend of skills and a wealth of experience to contribute to our innovative endeavors
• In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining our cutting-edge backend for the developer platform
• You’ll collaborate with colleagues from various backgrounds and specialties, harnessing our collective strengths to design and implement scalable and efficient solutions tailored to our business’s multifaceted needs
• Building a platform that is highly available, extremely reliable, low on latency, and at internet scale
• Creating and driving our Storage as a service strategy
• Building the technical foundation for future features and experiences
• Creating a collaborative and supportive team with a strong sense of ownership
• Build and maintain the underlying infrastructure of the developer platform
• Build new features for external developers such as SQL db as a service
• Contribute to the entire development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks
• Contribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future

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

• If you’re passionate about making a significant impact and thrive in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment, then we’re excited to welcome you to our team!
• Entrepreneurial spirit. On our team, everyone needs to act like a startup CEO. You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure
• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• Go, Typescript, Redis, distributed SQL, and Kubernetes experience
• Technical leader in the execution of large scale projects as well as day-to-day troubleshooting
• 7+ years of industry experience in backend, infrastructure, developer tools, or app platforms
• Mentoring and coaching other engineers as well as leading by example strong software engineering best practices
• Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that people love