Senior Software Engineer - Messaging

About the Role

The Messaging Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale streaming infrastructure and distributed messaging infrastructure problems.

Our messaging layer receives 50+ millions of messages/second serving 100GB/s of network traffic. We do this while efficiently storing over a petabyte of live topic data across ~1k brokers. As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.
• Refine and maintain our messaging infrastructure to support the asynchronous communication of services supporting hundreds of millions of users.
• Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports produce and consume requests along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ 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.
• Experience working closely with technologies like Kafka, and Kubernetes. Strimzi is a huge plus!
• Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed messaging systems.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.

Additional Application Information

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