Staff Software Engineer Messaging Infrastructure
Staff Software Engineer Messaging Infrastructure
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The Messaging Infrastructure team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This teams challenges break into 2 domains which we consider engineering Kafka as a platform and promoting event driven architectures.
Engineering Kafka as a platform: Higherlevel orchestration of Kafka to support our multicloud multiregion deployments on top of Kubernetes. A subset of current focuses include:
- Software automation that creates manages and destroys stateful Kafka clusters in our stateless Kubernetes environments.
- APIs and controllers that support operation of kafka clusters at scale atop kubernetes
- Automation of replication and other cluster management concerns.
Promoting event driven architectures: Reddit is increasingly adopting geographically distributed eventually consistent architectures. As part of this shift many systems are shifting to event driven architectures and the Messaging team is working to make this adoption simpler and faster. Current projects are:
- Schema Registries and enforcement
- Capacity management and ACLs through client enforced authentication
- GitOps and other developer experience tooling for Kafka interaction
As a member of the Messaging team your work will span these 2 domains which are rich with challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems. You will work with a team of engineers to develop a vision for asynchronous communication tooling. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!
In your daytoday you can expect to:
- Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddits infrastructure.
- Deliver software to improve the availability scalability latency and efficiency of Kafka and other messaging components.
- Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit.
- Automate critical aspects of the event driven development process
- Share oncall responsibilities.
You have:
- 7 years of experience developing internetscale software preferably in the context of infrastructure.
- Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and solutions bonus if familiar with Kafka specifically or experience building largescale infrastructure.
- Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
- Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus.
- Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software.
- Experience engineering large systems tracking work and being a selfstarter on projects.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a serviceoriented team and company.
- Experience navigating crossfunctional migrations
- Experience mentoring other engineers.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k Match
- Family Planning Support
- GenderAffirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units and depending on the position offered it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.based employees including medical dental and vision insurance 401(k) program with employer match generous time off for vacation and parental leave. To learn more please visit https://www.redditinc/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates we share base pay ranges for all USbased job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function level and country location benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$206700 $289400 USD
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please contact us at .
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
