# Software Engineer - Data Movement Platform

**Company:** [Reddit](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/reddit)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $164k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Python, Scala, Go, Java, Airflow, Kubernetes, Spark, Flink, CI/CD, Cloud Services
**Posted:** 2026-06-12

> Software engineer building and maintaining scalable data movement infrastructure using Spark, Flink, and Airflow to support ML and analytics workloads processing 100B+ daily events.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve data systems in collaboration with teammates and partner teams
- Refine and maintain data infrastructure technologies supporting ML and analytics workflows on data from hundreds of millions of users
- Own the Data Movement Platform enabling batch and stream data processing at Reddit
- Build new infrastructure for Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies, including contributing to open source as needed
- Build automated solutions to minimize toil for data users and provide a declarative, self-service experience
- Share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the Data Platform

## Requirements
- 2+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems with proactive leadership as a self-starter
- Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink and/or modern cloud-based infrastructure
- Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration within a service-oriented team and broader organizational context

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience contributing to open source projects
- Background in data platform technologies and large-scale data processing systems

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