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# software engineer

- **Company:** reddit Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $164,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Airflow, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), Object-Oriented Software Development, Open Source Technology, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Data Processing, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Code Testing, Apache Flink
- **Published:** August 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1794663/

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems. You will also also:

 * Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support ML and analytics workflows on data collected from hundreds of millions of users.
 * Own the Data Movement Platform used to enable batch and stream data processing at Reddit.
 * Invest in building new infrastructure for Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies at Reddit, including contributing to the open source community as needed.
 * Build automated solutions to minimize toilsome work for data users at Reddit and provide a declarative, self-service experience for working with data.
 * Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit's Data Platform.

If you have a passion for building and maintaining high quality code, want to improve how Reddit makes strategic decisions at the company level, and are excited about applying engineering best practices to one of the most powerful corpus of data in the world, then this is the team for you!


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