Staff Software Engineer – Ingestion Platform

🔥 11 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $217k - $303.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Reddit, Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

Reddit, Inc. is a social media platform that acts as a hub for thousands of communities, where users can engage in diverse conversations ranging from breaking news to niche interests. It enables users to post, comment, and vote on content, fostering a vibrant online community. Millions of people globally connect and share their passions on Reddit, creating a dynamic environment for authentic human interaction.

📋 Description

• Lead the development and evolution of Reddit’s Ingestion Platform • Design, write, and deliver reliable software for distributed data movement across streaming and batch workloads • Own the architecture and evolution of the platform’s control plane and data plane • Expand the platform to support S3/GCS, Apache Iceberg, transformations, deduplication, dead-letter queues, and reusable capabilities • Build connectors and abstractions for Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Iceberg, Flink, and other data stores • Improve the self-service experience through APIs, safe defaults, automated provisioning, documentation, onboarding workflows, observability, and alerting • Lead migrations from bespoke and legacy ingestion systems to the Ingestion Platform • Establish reliability, security, and operational practices for pipelines across Kubernetes clusters • Identify architectural and product-experience gaps and lead redesigns • Collaborate with Infrastructure, Data Platform, Product, Ads, ML, Storage, and partner teams • Mentor and guide backend and data infrastructure engineers across the company

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on experience building internet-scale distributed systems, data infrastructure, or platforms used by other developers • BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Strong software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages such as Go, Python, Java, or Scala • Deep experience designing and operating high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines or platform services, including streaming and batch processing • Experience with Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Apache Iceberg, Flink, or comparable technologies • Experience designing APIs and platform abstractions, including schema evolution, Protocol Buffers, and gRPC • Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native platform concepts, including controllers, custom resources, workload identity, infrastructure automation, and multi-cluster deployments • Strong understanding of observability and operational excellence: metrics, logging, alerting, SLOs, incident response, data quality, and safe migration practices • Product-minded approach to advocating for platform users and turning ambiguous needs into reliable, scalable solutions • Demonstrated technical leadership and experience guiding teams through complex, cross-functional initiatives • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Experience building low-code or self-service developer platforms, or curiosity to learn, is a strong plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in the form of restricted stock units • Commission eligibility depending on the position offered • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) program with employer match • Generous vacation time off • Parental leave • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans • Opportunity to opt out of interview recording, transcription, and summarization