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# software engineering engineer kubernetes monitoring

- **Company:** reddit Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $217,000.0 - $304,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Programming, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, Free and Open-Source Software, Vertica
- **Published:** August 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1793634/

## About the Role

* 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure.
 * Familiarity with distributed systems development, bonus if familiar with any of the specific tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, Loki)
 * Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.

 * Kubernetes controller or operator development experience is a huge plus.

Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software.

Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and being a self-starter on projects.

Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.

## Description

* Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit's infrastructure.
 * Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
 * Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit.
 * Automate critical aspects of the event driven development process
 * Share on-call responsibilities.
 * Contribute upstream changes to the open source projects we use


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