Staff Software Engineer, Observability
Build and operate Reddit’s internet-scale observability platform across monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing. The role requires 7+ years of infrastructure or software engineering experience, distributed systems expertise, and strong Kubernetes and troubleshooting skills.
About the job
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.
Skills
Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes Operators
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