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Software Engineer, Ingestion Platform

Reddit· Infrastructure
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Remote$164.2k - $229.9kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Software Engineer role within Reddit's Data Platform team focused on building scalable, fault-tolerant, self-serve ingestion systems to handle large-scale data movement across streaming and batch workloads.

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.
  • Contribute to 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, 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 Ads Data Platform and ML Indexing 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 to improve developer velocity and enable Reddit’s continued growth.
  • Work collaboratively with engineers and stakeholders across Infrastructure, Data Platform, Product, Ads, ML, Storage, and partner teams to align roadmaps and deliver durable solutions.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java
  • Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems, diligently monitoring project progress, and showcasing proactive leadership as a self-starter on diverse projects
  • Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink and/or working with modern cloud-based infrastructure
  • Excellent communication skills tailored for effective collaboration within both a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context

Skills

Required:Programming languagesDistributed systems designCloud, data processing stack

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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