Senior Software Engineer, Compute Platform

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver software solutions in Go to improve the availability, scalability, and latency of Reddit’s compute infrastructure.
• Develop Kubernetes controllers and operators to automate cluster management, workload scheduling, and the reconciliation of complex system states.
• Build core tooling and SDKs that codify network configurations, managed services, and compute capacity tracking across a multi-region fleet.
• Optimize intra-cluster performance by developing reactive schedulers and detecting node-level characteristics to inform availability.
• Collaborate across the organization to provide technical feedback and automate critical development workflows and infrastructure operations.
• Participate in an on-call rotation (approximately one week every 8-9 weeks) to ensure the stability of our global scale systems.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience developing internet-scale software with a heavy focus on infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Proficient in Go with a proven track record of building and managing Kubernetes services at scale.
• An expert in Linux internals, including a solid understanding of multi-tenancy primitives like cgroups and namespaces.
• A contributor to the open-source community, ideally within the infrastructure or CNCF domain.
• A self-starter capable of troubleshooting complex, cross-system issues and managing large projects independently.
• An excellent communicator who thrives in a collaborative, service-oriented environment.