Staff Software Engineer, Storage

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About the Role

The Staff Software Engineer, Storage position is a blend of software engineering and systems engineering, with a strong focus on building and evolving control and data planes, improving underlying systems, and writing software that implements critical workflows to automate and enhance the operation of our large-scale storage infrastructure.

We also work with our product teams to make the underlying Storage technologies work better for Reddit’s main workloads, including defining and improving the application’s data models and data access patterns, and lots of times, this also involves data-driven analysis and tuning of the Storage stack to make step function improvements to the end-to-end data path. There is a substantial amount of troubleshooting and analysis to understand the real problems we face as we scale, and our customer’s workloads change.

What You'll Do

• Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go, C++ and sometimes Python.
• Dive deep into the codebase of supported storage systems to understand system internals.
• Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications.
• Engage actively with the open-source community to implement and upstream changes to the OSS codebase.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of high-performance, large-scale distributed storage systems to power various use cases at Reddit.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate storage capabilities into broader storage infrastructure and use cases across Reddit.
• Mentor and guide other engineers on how to design, build and evangelize vector storage services across Reddit.

Who You Might Be

• 7+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure.
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java.
• Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems.
• Experience contributing code improvements, features and bug fixes to open-source (OSS) projects.
• Prior experience with operating a large scale critical infrastructure system with a focus on automation and workflow development is a plus, especially in a role where they were required to be on call.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

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.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based 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 Salary Range For This Position Is

$217,000—$303,900 USD

Key skills/competency

• Software Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Storage Infrastructure
• Go (Golang)
• C++
• Python
• Scalability
• Availability
• Automation
• Open Source