Reddit is looking to hire a Software Engineer to solve large-scale data platform and efficiency challenges, specifically by refining and maintaining data infrastructure technologies, owning the Data Warehouse and Airflow platforms, building automation for data users, and implementing monitoring/alerting for core systems.
Requirements
- 2+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems, diligently monitoring project progress, and showcasing proactive leadership as a self-starter on diverse projects.
- Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink and/or working with modern cloud-based infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support ML and analytics on data collected from hundreds of millions of users.
- Own the Data Warehouse Platform used for long term storage of this data and Airflow Platform used to efficiently orchestrate how this data is processed.
- Take part in building opinionated guardrails to drive improvements in data quality, cost efficiency, and data governance.
- Build automation software which minimizes toilsome work for data users at Reddit and provides a declarative, self-service experience for working with data.
- Monitoring/alerting for our core systems and the mechanisms built on top.
- Collaborate effectively with a team of proficient software engineers to develop and maintain the fundamental platform that powers the cutting-edge Reddit's data infrastructure
- Design, build and deliver end-to-end data solutions to improve the reliability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Reddit’s Data Platform
Other
- Reddit is a community of communities.
- Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world.
- Excellent communication skills tailored for effective collaboration within both a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context.
- LI-remote, LI-JS5
- Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
