Senior Software Engineer - Messaging

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 Messaging Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale streaming infrastructure and distributed messaging infrastructure problems.

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 messaging layer receives 50+ millions of messages/second serving 100GB/s of network traffic We do this while efficiently storing over a petabyte of live topic data across ~1k brokers

As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth

You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.

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

Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy Refine and maintain our messaging infrastructure to support the asynchronous communication of services supporting hundreds of millions of users

Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports produce and consume requests along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure

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