Software Engineer, Content Platform

Reddit · Remote - United StatesRemotemid

In short

▸Desarrollas y mantienes servicios críticos de contenido en Reddit, como feeds y publicaciones.
▸Trabajas con Go y Python en un entorno de alta escala, incluyendo el monolito legacy R2.
▸Eres clave para mejorar la confiabilidad y escalabilidad de sistemas que impactan a millones de usuarios diarios.

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What they ask for

✓3+ años de experiencia en ingeniería de software en entornos de producción
✓Titulación en Ciencias de la Computación o experiencia equivalente
✓Dominio de Go, Python, C++ o Java
✓Experiencia con bases de datos como Cassandra, Postgres o Redis
✓Conocimiento de infraestructura en la nube: Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP
✓Habilidades de comunicación y colaboración efectiva con equipos multidisciplinarios

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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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce. Who We Are: The Infrastructure organization enables Reddit to deliver Reliability, Performance and Efficiency, with a single opinionated technology stack. The Content Platform team within Infrastructure additionally focuses on empowering product teams to build the best possible Content-related experiences, easily and reliably. This is a high-impact team that owns the Tier-0 services and core data models that power some of the most visible aspects of our product - viewing a feed, posting, commenting, upvoting - and we work closely with teams like Consumer, Ads, Feeds, Storage and Ranking. This team is also responsible for running and maintaining R2 – Reddit’s monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit. We are looking to hire a Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your passion for building and maintaining high quality code, scaling Tier-0 infrastructure and building high-leverage platform services will enable our partner product teams to deliver tangible user value. What You’ll Do: As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems that comprise the Content Platform at Reddit. You will also: • Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products • Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’s monolith Python legacy stack • Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications • Develop judgment to identify and discuss gaps in our current platform; Help evolve it for next 2+ years of growth • Work collaboratively with wide variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit; actively engage in soliciting customer feedback • Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit • Continue improving your own technical abilities, acumen and soft skills Who You Might Be: • 3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code • BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience • Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java • Experience working with one or more databases like Cassandra, Postgres, Redis • Experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure like Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP • Strong communicat

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