Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.
• Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
• Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit.
• Automate critical aspects of the event-driven development process.
• Share on-call responsibilities.
• Contribute upstream changes to the open-source projects used by the team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure.
• Familiarity with distributed systems development.
• Experience developing on Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities across systems and software.
• Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and independently driving projects.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration with a service-oriented team and company.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, or Loki.
• Kubernetes controller or operator development experience.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $217,000–$303,900 USD.
• Equity in the form of restricted stock units may be available.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
• Family planning support.
• Gender-affirming care.
• Mental health and coaching benefits.
• Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
• Paid parental leave.