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Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion Platform

Reddit· Infrastructure
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Remote$217k - $303.9kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to lead the Ingestion Platform at Reddit, focusing on design, development, and evolution of distributed data movement pipelines (streaming and batch) from sources to sinks, with emphasis on reliability, scalability, observability, and developer self-service.

Responsibilities

  • Design, write, and deliver reliable software for distributed data movement across streaming and batch workloads, with a focus on availability, scalability, latency, correctness, and cost efficiency.
  • Own the architecture and evolution of the platform’s control plane and data plane, including pipeline APIs, controllers, connectors, target managers, schemas, and sink integrations.
  • Expand the platform beyond Kafka-to-BigQuery by delivering production-ready paths to S3/GCS and Apache Iceberg, as well as transformations, deduplication, dead-letter queues, and other reusable capabilities.
  • Build high-quality connectors and abstractions for systems such as Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Iceberg, Flink, and other data stores, while keeping the platform modular and easy to extend.
  • Improve the self-service experience for platform users through clear APIs, safe defaults, automated provisioning, documentation, onboarding workflows, and actionable observability and alerting.
  • Lead migrations from bespoke and legacy ingestion systems to the Ingestion Platform, partnering with teams to make migrations safe, incremental, and low-touch.
  • Establish strong reliability, security, and operational practices for pipelines running across Kubernetes clusters, including schema evolution, workload identity, permissions, deployment safety, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Identify gaps in the platform’s architecture and product experience, and lead redesigns that improve developer velocity and enable Reddit’s continued growth.
  • Work collaboratively with engineers and stakeholders across multiple teams to align roadmaps and deliver durable solutions.
  • Mentor and guide backend and data infrastructure engineers across the company, raising the bar for technical design, operational excellence, and customer focus.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designGo, Python, Java, or ScalaKafkaBigQuery, S3, GCSKubernetesAPIs and platform abstractionsObservability and SRE practices

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 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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