Staff Software Engineer, DevPlatform
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
Reddit is a platform that both celebrates and benefits from our users’ creativity. Tens of thousands of external developers are already building apps on our platform, but we can do so much more.
What You’ll Be Working On
- 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.
Who You Might Be
7+ years of industry experience in backend, infrastructure, developer tools, or app platforms. Technical leader in the execution of large scale projects as well as day-to-day troubleshooting. Go, Typescript, Redis, distributed SQL, and Kubernetes experience. 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. Entrepreneurial spirit.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Contribute meaningfully to team strategy.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
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Reddit is a social news and discussion website where users can share and discuss content on a wide range of topics. The platform is divided into thousands of communities, known as subreddits, each focused on a specific topic or interest. Users can submit content, such as links, images, and text posts, and engage with others through comments and votes. Reddit's algorithm uses the votes to rank content, making popular posts more visible to a wider audience. The company aims to provide a platform for users to share ideas, opinions, and experiences, and to facilitate discussions and connections between people with similar interests. With its large and active user base, Reddit has become a significant platform for social and cultural commentary, and has been used by companies and organizations to engage with their audiences and promote their brands.
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