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Senior Software Engineer - Messaging

Reddit· Infrastructure
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Remote$190.8k - $267.1kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer for Reddit's Messaging Infra team, focused on large-scale streaming and distributed messaging infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability for hundreds of millions of users.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure.
  • Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java
  • Experience working closely with technologies like Kafka, and Kubernetes. Strimzi is a huge plus!
  • Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed messaging systems.
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.

Skills

Required:Experience with internet-scale softwareProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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