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RedditPosted Sep 15, 2026
Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion Platform
Remote - United Statesfull timeRemotesenior$217k–$304kH1B: yes
Reddit Staff Software Engineer to lead development of Reddit’s Ingestion Platform for scalable data pipelines. Focus on architecture, connectors, and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the development and evolution of Reddit’s Ingestion Platform.
- Design, write, and deliver reliable software for distributed data movement across streaming and batch workloads, with a focus on availability, scalability, latency, correctness, and cost efficiency.
- Own the architecture and evolution of the platform’s control plane and data plane, including pipeline APIs, controllers, connectors, target managers, schemas, and sink integrations.
- Expand the platform beyond Kafka-to-BigQuery by helping deliver production-ready paths to S3/GCS and Apache Iceberg, as well as transformations, deduplication, dead-letter queues, and other reusable capabilities.
- Build high-quality connectors and abstractions for systems such as Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Iceberg, Flink, and other data stores, while keeping the platform modular and easy to extend.
- Improve the self-service experience for platform users through clear APIs, safe defaults, automated provisioning, documentation, onboarding workflows, and actionable observability and alerting.
- Lead migrations from bespoke and legacy ingestion systems to the Ingestion Platform, partnering with teams such as Ads Data Platform and ML Indexing to make migrations safe, incremental, and low-touch.
Benefits
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
- Equity/RSU
- Parental Leave
- Wellness
Company
1001-5000 employees
Social Media
Founded 2005
Source: greenhouse
Active within the past hour
Remote-friendly