Staff Software Engineer, Observability

🕒 August 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $217k - $303.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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First seen by Remote Rocketship August 14

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Reddit, Inc.

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

• Create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure • Deliver software improving availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components • Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit • Automate critical aspects of the event-driven development process • Share on-call responsibilities • Contribute upstream changes to the open-source projects used by the team • Work across monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing domains • Build and improve systems based on Prometheus, Thanos, Vector, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure • Familiarity with distributed systems development • Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and Loki is a bonus • Experience developing on Kubernetes or similar distributed systems • Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus • Strong troubleshooting capabilities across systems and software • Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and independently driving projects • Excellent communication skills for collaboration with a service-oriented team and company

🏖️ 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 • Equity in the form of restricted stock units • Potential commission eligibility depending on the position offered • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • AI interview recording opt-out opportunity

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