Staff Software Engineer, Messaging Infrastructure

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Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure.
• Experience with asynchronous communication patterns and solutions, bonus if familiar with Kafka specifically or experience building large-scale infrastructure.
• 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.
• Experience navigating cross-functional migrations
• Experience mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities:

• 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 Kafka and other messaging 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.