Software Engineer (Ingestion Platform)

Join Reddit as a Software Engineer on the Ingestion Platform team. You will work on creating and improving scalable, fault-tolerant, self-serve systems, refining and maintaining data infrastructure technologies, and building automated solutions for data users. You will also collaborate with teammates to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit's Data Platform. Benefits include comprehensive health coverage, flexible vacation, family planning funds, paid volunteer time off, and workspace/home office benefits.

• Collaborate with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault-tolerant, self-serve systems for data ingestion.
• Refine and maintain data infrastructure technologies to support machine learning and analytics workflows on data collected from users.
• Own the Data Movement Platform used to enable batch and stream data processing at Reddit, and invest in building new infrastructure for Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies.

• The Data Movement team is looking to hire a Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale data platform and efficiency challenges
• If you have a passion for building and maintaining high quality code, want to improve how Reddit makes strategic decisions at the company level, and are excited about applying engineering best practices to one of the most powerful corpus of data in the world, then this is the team for you!
• Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java
• Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink and/or working with modern cloud-based infrastructure
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems, diligently monitoring project progress, and showcasing proactive leadership as a self-starter on diverse projects
• 2+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Excellent communication skills tailored for effective collaboration within both a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context