About the position
The Compute team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team’s challenges break into 2 domains, which we consider platform engineering and cluster engineering. Platform Engineering focuses on higher-level orchestration of both compute capacity and workload primitives to support our multi-cloud, multi-region deployments. A subset of current focuses include software automation that creates, manages, and destroys clusters in our fleet, APIs and controllers that support multi-cluster deployment and scheduling mechanics, core SDKs that enable controller development in the larger organization, and software that codifies out-of-cluster ancillary concerns such as network configurations and managed services. Cluster Engineering involves intra-cluster engineering problems that balance performance, efficiency, and stability, focusing on detection of node-level performance characteristics, efficient resource packing, Kubernetes controllers, and cluster upgrades. As a member of the Compute team, your work will span these 2 domains, which are rich with challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!
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 Reddit’s Compute Platform.
- Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of the compute platform.
- Automate critical aspects of the development process such as service creation and management, as well as critical infrastructure operations.
- Share on-call responsibilities with the Compute team.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure.
- Language proficiency in Go.
- Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
- Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus.
- Proficiency operating Linux with a solid understanding around cgroups, namespaces, other multi-tenancy primitives.
- Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software.
- Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and being a self-starter on projects.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.
Nice-to-haves
- Kubernetes controller or operator development experience.
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
