Staff Software Engineer (Ingestion Platform)

Join Reddit as a Staff Software Engineer in the Ingestion Platform team. This high-impact role involves leading the development and evolution of Reddit's Ingestion Platform, designing and delivering reliable software for distributed data movement, and improving the self-service experience for platform users. You will work collaboratively with engineers and stakeholders across various teams and mentor backend and data infrastructure engineers.

Lead the development and evolution of Reddit’s Ingestion Platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design, write, and deliver reliable software for distributed data movement across streaming and batch workloads, including pipeline APIs, controllers, connectors, and target managers.
• Mentor and guide backend and data infrastructure engineers across the company, raising the bar for technical design, operational excellence, and customer focus.

Requirements

• Experience designing APIs and platform abstractions, including schema evolution, serialization formats such as Protocol Buffers, and service-to-service communication such as gRPC
• Experience with data movement patterns and systems such as Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Apache Iceberg, Flink, or comparable technologies
• Strong software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages such as Go, Python, Java, or Scala
• A product-minded engineer who advocates for platform users and can turn ambiguous customer and partner needs into simple, reliable, and scalable solutions
• BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native platform concepts, including controllers, custom resources, workload identity, infrastructure automation, and multi-cluster deployments
• 10+ years of hands-on experience building internet-scale distributed systems, data infrastructure, or platforms used by other developers
• Deep experience designing and operating high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines or platform services, including streaming and batch processing
• Experience building low-code or self-service developer platforms, or curiosity to learn, is a strong plus
• Demonstrated technical leadership and a history of guiding teams through complex, cross-functional initiatives with meaningful impact
• A strong understanding of observability and operational excellence: metrics, logging, alerting, SLOs, incident response, data quality, and safe migration practices
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams and stakeholders

Pay

USD 217,000 - 303,900