Staff Software Engineer - Data Snapshot

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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Data Snapshot team is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale batch and streaming data challenges.

Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Our community of users generates over 100B analytics events per day, each of which is ingested by the Data Infrastructure team into a data warehouse that sees 55,000+ daily queries. We utilize this data to enable both batch and streaming data usage at the company. The team also owns our Streaming Platform that is build using Kafka

As a staff engineer, you will lead your team in the design and creation of our Snapshot product used to deliver high quality data to partners. You will partner with teams around Reddit to create and execute a strategy to ensure data quality and consistency at scale. 

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

• Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term strategy.
• Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support real-time processing of hundreds of millions of users.
• Own the tools we use to ingest, store and improve data quality.
• Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by external developers. 

Who you might be:

• 7+ years of coding experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
• Experience with programming languages such as Scala, Go, or Java.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent …