Staff Software Engineer, Ingestion Platform at Reddit

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Reddit is hiring a staff software engineer, ingestion platform focused on content ingestion platform engineering.

Reddit

Location: Remote
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: Python, Java, Kubernetes, Go

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Role overview

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

The Infrastructure organization enables Reddit to deliver Reliability, Performance and Efficiency, with a single opinionated technology stack. The Content Platform team within Infrastructure additionally focuses on empowering product teams to build the best possible Content-related experiences, easily and reliably. This is a high-impact team that owns the Tier-0 services and core data models that power some of the most visible aspects of our product - viewing a feed, posting, commenting, upvoting - and we work closely with teams like Consumer, Ads, Feeds, Storage and Ranking. This team is also responsible for running and maintaining R2 – Reddit’s monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit.

We are looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your unique insights into improving our operational posture as well as harmonizing feedback from customers will shape the future direction of our platform.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and deliver systems for content ingestion platform engineering.
Collaborate with product, data, security and engineering teams.
Improve reliability, performance, testing, automation and documentation.
Mentor engineers and guide sustainable production practices.

Qualifications

We are looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your unique insights into improving our operational posture as well as harmonizing feedback from customers will shape the future direction of our platform.
Lead migrations from bespoke and legacy ingestion systems to the Ingestion Platform, partnering with teams such as Ads Data Platform and ML Indexing to make migrations safe, incremental, and low-touch.
Establish strong reliability, security, and operational practices for pipelines running across Kubernetes clusters, including schema evolution, workload identity, permissions, deployment safety, monitoring, and incident response.
Work collaboratively with engineers and stakeholders across Infrastructure, Data Platform, Product, Ads, ML, Storage, and partner teams to align roadmaps and deliver durable solutions.
Mentor and guide backend and data infrastructure engineers across the company, raising the bar for technical design, operational excellence, and customer focus.
Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native platform concepts, including controllers, custom resources, workload identity, infrastructure automation, and multi-cluster deployments.
A strong understanding of observability and operational excellence: metrics, logging, alerting, SLOs, incident response, data quality, and safe migration practices.
A product-minded engineer who advocates for platform users and can turn ambiguous customer and partner needs into simple, reliable, and scalable solutions.
Demonstrated technical leadership and a history of guiding teams through complex, cross-functional initiatives with meaningful impact.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams and stakeholders.
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/ .
The base salary range for this position is:
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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Technology in this role

Python: • Strong software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages such as Go, Python, Java, or .
Java: • Strong software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages such as Go, Python, Java, or .
Kubernetes: Establish strong reliability, security, and operational practices for pipelines running across Kubernetes clusters, including schema evolution, workload identity, permissions, deployment safety, monitoring, and incident .
Go: • Strong software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages such as Go, Python, Java, or .
Scala: • Strong software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages such as Go, Python, Java, or .
Kafka: • Expand the platform beyond Kafka-to-BigQuery by helping deliver production-ready paths to S3/GCS and Apache Iceberg, as well as transformations, deduplication, dead-letter queues, and other reusable .
CAN: A product-minded engineer who advocates for platform users and can turn ambiguous customer and partner needs into simple, reliable, and scalable .
gRPC: • Experience designing APIs and platform abstractions, including schema evolution, serialization formats such as Protocol Buffers, and service-to-service communication such as .
BigQuery: • Expand the platform beyond Kafka-to-BigQuery by helping deliver production-ready paths to S3/GCS and Apache Iceberg, as well as transformations, deduplication, dead-letter queues, and other reusable .

Benefits

Remote arrangement and location as stated in the official posting.
Opportunity to work on products used by Reddit communities and advertisers.

About Reddit

Reddit is a community platform with products for communities, content and advertising.

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Source checked: 2026-10-16

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