Staff Software Engineer, Caching Seattle, WA

Company: Seibold GmbH
Location: Seattle
Posted on: April 4, 2025

Job Description:

Reddit is a community of communities. It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com .The Storage Infra team is looking to hire a Staff software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale storage infrastructure problems.Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there's a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.Our community of users generates over 100B analytics events per day, each of which is ingested by the Data Infrastructure team into a data warehouse that sees 55,000+ daily queries. We utilize this data to enable both batch and streaming data usage at the company. The team also owns our Streaming Platform that is built using FlinkOur caching layer servers 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys. We are responsible for efficiently storing 100s of terabytes of data. As a staff engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit's product growth. You'll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit's users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

• 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 RedditWho you might be:
  • 7+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
  • Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java.
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
  • Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!
  • 401k Matching
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
  • Paid Volunteer time off#LI-remote, #LI-JS5Pay Transparency:This job posting may span more than one career level.In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.The base pay range for this position is:$206,700 - $289,400 USDReddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com .Apply for this job*indicates a required fieldFirst Name *Last Name *Email *Phone *Location (City) *Resume/CV *Enter manuallyAccepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtfEnter manuallyAccepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtfLinkedIn ProfileHow did you hear about this job? *Are you currently authorized to work in the U.S.? * Select...Do you now, or will you in the future, require immigration sponsorship to work at Reddit? * Select...By selecting "I agree," I understand that the information I have provided as part of this job application will be processed in accordance with Reddit's Candidate Privacy Policy. * Select...Reddit U.S. Equal Employment InformationReddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. To bring community and belonging to everyone in the world, Reddit's employees must represent communities and redditors on our platform.Our vision at Reddit is to have a workforce representative of people with different perspectives and experiences, including but not limited to, gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, religion, and political views.We invite you to self-identify across the identities below so we can better understand our talent pools and assess our effectiveness in attracting and recruiting people to Reddit from all backgrounds.Answering these questions will not impact your application, nor will this information be shared with anyone making a hiring decision. For more information, please refer to our statement here .What gender identity do you most closely identify with? * Select...Are you a person of transgender experience? * Select...What sexual orientation do you most closely identify with? * Select...Do you live with a disability (as outlined by the ADA)? * Select...Are you a veteran/have you served in the military? * Select...Please select up to 2 ethnicities that you most closely identify with. * Select...
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