Staff Software Engineer, Storage

Reddit is a community of communities, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer focusing on storage systems. The role involves designing and delivering software to enhance the performance and efficiency of Reddit's storage infrastructure, while collaborating with various teams to integrate storage capabilities into broader applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go, C++ and sometimes Python
• Dive deep into the codebase of supported storage systems to understand system internals
• Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications
• Engage actively with the open-source community to implement and upstream changes to the OSS codebase
• Contribute to the design and implementation of high-performance, large-scale distributed storage systems to power various use cases at Reddit
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate storage capabilities into broader storage infrastructure and use cases across Reddit
• Mentor and guide other engineers on how to design, build and evangelize vector storage services across Reddit

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java
• Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems
• Experience contributing code improvements, features and bug fixes to open-source (OSS) projects
• Prior experience with operating a large scale critical infrastructure system with a focus on automation and workflow development is a plus, especially in a role where they were required to be on call
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company