Staff Software Engineer, Caching New York City, NY

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems.Our community of users generates over 100B analytics events per day, each of which is ingested by the Data Infrastructure team into a data warehouse that sees 55,000+ daily queries. We utilize this data to enable both batch and streaming data usage at the company. The team also owns our Streaming Platform that is built using Flink.Our caching layer serves 100s of millions of queries/second, serving 100s of billions of keys. We are responsible for efficiently storing 100s of terabytes of data. As a Staff 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. You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.In your day-to-day, you can expect to: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.Who you might be:7+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java.Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!Pay Transparency:This job posting may span more than one career level.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/.The base pay range for this position is:$206,700 - $289,400 USDReddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.Apply for this job

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