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# Senior Software Engineer, Storage

- **Company:** reddit Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $217,000.0 - $303,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Software Bug Management, C++ (Programming Language), Distributed Data Store, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Machine Learning, Memcached, MySQL, Redis, Software Engineering, Data Storage Technologies, System Availability, Storage Technologies, Information Technology, Cassandra, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/psza2er41g

## About the Role

* 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
 * Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed storage systems.
 * Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
 * Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
 * Experience working closely with Storage technologies like Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache is a huge plus!

## Description

Our caching layer serves 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys.We do this while efficiently storing 100s of Terabytes of data across thousands of machines. As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit's product growth. You'll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit's users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

 * Contribute to developing the team and organization's long term technical strategy.
 * Refine and maintain our data storage infrastructure to support the storage and caching needs of products supporting hundreds of millions of users.
 * Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports data writes, reads and storage along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure.
 * Mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services used by hundreds of engineers across Reddit