Staff Software Engineer, Storage
Senior Software Engineer on Reddit's Storage Infra team, building and scaling large-scale distributed storage and caching systems (100s of millions of queries/sec, 100s of TBs) that power ML/AI/Search and core product experiences with high availability. Requires 5+ years internet-scale software experience and distributed systems expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Partner closely with the team and biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth while maintaining extremely high availability and reliability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure.
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java.
- Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache.
Skills
Go, Python, C++, Java, Distributed Storage Systems, Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache
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