Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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The Infrastructure organization has the mission of building and delivering the compute orchestration environment, storage and data systems, and essential platform services behind all of Reddit.

The Infrastructure organization is looking to hire a backend software engineer to work collaboratively on a team dedicated to building out Reddit’s multi-cloud compute infrastructure. This is a high impact role where you will contribute to design, implementation, and operations for one of the largest sites in the world. The Infrastructure team’s mission is to provide a platform for teams to independently and effectively run their compute workloads in a performant, reliable, and secure way.

The position is a mix of software engineering and devops; a lot of the time, we are writing software to improve our compute infrastructure. But there is a substantial amount of troubleshooting and analysis to understand the real problems we face as we scale, and our customer’s workloads change.

What you’ll do:

Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers and systems engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.

Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go and sometimes Python.

Guide and 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.

Mentor backend developers across the company.

Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems

Who you might be:

10+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure roles.

8+ years experience with cloud infrastructure systems is a plus (Kubernetes, AWS / GCE ecosystems).

Experience in influencing larger (500+ engineers) organizations on technical direction/best practices.

Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, data teams to deliver great user experiences.

Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people think and how they interact with software at scale.

Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++.

Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency:

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In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .

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The base salary range for this position is: $286,700 — $401,400 USD

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