Software Engineer, Content Platform

We are looking to hire a Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your passion for building and maintaining high quality code, scaling Tier-0 infrastructure and building high-leverage platform services will enable our partner product teams to deliver tangible user value.

What You’ll Do:

As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems that comprise the Content Platform at Reddit. You will also:

• Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products
• Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’s monolith Python legacy stack
• Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications
• Develop judgment to identify and discuss gaps in our current platform; Help evolve it for next 2+ years of growth
• Work collaboratively with wide variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit; actively engage in soliciting customer feedback 
• Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit
• Continue improving your own technical abilities, acumen and soft skills

Who You Might Be:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code 
• BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java
• Experience working with one or more databases like Cassandra, Postgres, Redis 
• Experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure like Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP
• Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Prior experience with scaled, high rate platform services and API design is a plus