Description:

The Observability team at Reddit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer who excels at the intersection of infrastructure and software development.
The team manages a suite of tools focused on enabling engineers to comprehend their creations, primarily utilizing open-source solutions at scale.
Responsibilities include working on monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems, dealing with challenges of scale and performance engineering.
The role involves collaborating with a team of software engineers to enhance Reddit's infrastructure platform and contribute to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit.
The Staff Software Engineer will automate critical aspects of the event-driven development process, share on-call responsibilities, and contribute to open-source projects.
The position offers the opportunity to work on challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems that directly impact millions of users worldwide.

Requirements:

7+ years of experience in developing internet-scale software, preferably in an infrastructure context.
Familiarity with distributed systems development, with a bonus for knowledge of tools like Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, and Loki.
Experience in developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems, with Kubernetes controller or operator development experience being a significant advantage.
Strong troubleshooting skills in systems and software, along with experience in engineering large systems, tracking work, and being self-driven on projects.
Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with a service-oriented team and company.