Staff Software Engineer, Observability

May 4

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Description

• The Observability (OBS) team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team own a suite of tools for allowing engineers to understand their creations, based primarily on open-source solutions at scale. We’re active users of and contributors to Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector and more. • Responsibilities include work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure, delivering software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components, contributing feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit, automating critical aspects of the event driven development process, sharing on-call responsibilities, and contributing upstream changes to the open source projects we use.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure. • Familiarity with distributed systems development, bonus if familiar with any of the specific tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, Loki) • Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems. - Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus. • Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software. • Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and being a self-starter on projects. • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits • 401k Matching • Workspace benefits for your home office • Personal & Professional development funds • Family Planning Support • Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days • 4+ months paid Parental Leave • Paid Volunteer time off