Senior Software Engineer, Storage

About the Role

The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems.

Our caching layer serves 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys. We do this while efficiently storing 100s of Terabytes of data across thousands of machines. 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 data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users.
• Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports data writes, reads and storage along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure.
• Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit.

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.
• Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
• Experience working closely with storage technologies like Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!

Interview Process Note

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.