Join Reddit's Observability team as a Staff Software Engineer to tackle infrastructure and software challenges impacting millions of users.
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 7+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Software Engineer on the Observability team at Reddit will focus on enhancing the infrastructure that supports the platform's monitoring, logging, and tracing capabilities. Key skills include extensive experience with distributed systems and familiarity with tools like Prometheus and Kubernetes, which are essential for managing Reddit's large-scale data processing needs. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in internet-scale software development who are looking to tackle complex challenges in a collaborative environment. The team is dedicated to open-source contributions, reflecting Reddit's commitment to community-driven technology.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 7 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Reddit's career page.
- Reddit has 165 other open roles including Community Manager, French Speaking (Contract), Senior Support Engineer, Snoo Operations & Support, Senior Growth Manager (Contract).
- 1155 active Kubernetes roles on Joblaze right now.
- 175 active Grafana roles on Joblaze right now.
- 118 active Prometheus roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$165,000).
- Pays more than 82% of the 674 salaried Kubernetes roles we track (median $160,000). See Kubernetes salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer , Observability role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $217,000–$303,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer , Observability role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: ClickHouse, Grafana, Kubernetes, OTEL, Prometheus, Thanos.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer , Observability role at Reddit.
From the original posting
This role is fully remote. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.
The Observability (OBS) team is looking to hire an Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team owns 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 our open source tools, including Prometheus, Thanos, and more.
Monitoring
Our monitoring stack at Reddit processes billions of data-points a minute, delivering insights at scale. Reddit has one of the larger deployments of Prometheus and Thanos in the world , and with this come unique challenges of scale for these systems. Fun problems include performance engineering on a distributed query system and product thinking around new features to remove the user pain from this stack.
Logging
We operate a platform for logging based on Vector and Clickhouse that processes millions of logs a day for Reddit. Thousands of people at Reddit use this system every day as they maintain, deploy, and debug their code. Join us as we invest in this system to help users better understand the data they have.
Distributed Tracing
Tracing at Reddit is based on OTEL, Clickhouse, and Grafana. It’s light on features, but currently processing tens of millions of events, and we will be building new ways for users to leverage and understand this data in the coming year.
As a member of the Observability team, your work will span these domains, which are rich with challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!
In your day-to-day, you can expect to:
- Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.
- Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
- Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit.
- Automate critical aspects of the event driven development process
- Share on-call responsibilities.
- Contribute upstream changes to the open source projects we use
You have:
- 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 and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
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