Reddit Software Engineer on Reddit's Content Platform team building scalable, fault-tolerant systems primarily in Go and Python. Improve availability, scalability, and efficiency of Reddit’s core content services.
Responsibilities
As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems that comprise the Content Platform at Reddit. You will also:
Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products
Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’s monolith Python legacy stack
Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications
Develop judgment to identify and discuss gaps in our current platform; Help evolve it for next 2+ years of growth
Work collaboratively with wide variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit; actively engage in soliciting customer feedback
Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit
Continue improving your own technical abilities, acumen and soft skills
Who You Might Be:
3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java
Qualification
BS in Computer Science
Required
3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting
BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python
