The Messaging Infrastructure team needs a Staff Software Engineer to develop and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure, focusing on engineering Kafka as a platform and promoting event-driven architectures.
Requirements
- Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and solutions, bonus if familiar with Kafka specifically or experience building large-scale infrastructure.
- Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
- Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus.
- Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software.
- Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and being a self-starter on projects.
- Experience with schema registries and enforcement
- Experience with capacity management and ACLs through client enforced authentication
Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.
- Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Kafka and other messaging components.
- Automate critical aspects of the event driven development process
- Share on-call responsibilities.
- Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit.
- Develop software automation that creates, manages, and destroys stateful Kafka clusters in stateless Kubernetes environments.
- Develop APIs and controllers that support operation of kafka clusters at scale atop kubernetes
Other
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.
- Experience navigating cross-functional migrations
- Experience mentoring other engineers.
- 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure.
- 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
