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# Staff Software Engineer , Observability

- **Company:** REMOTE
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Programming, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Grafana, Kubernetes, Free and Open-Source Software, Vertica
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_a6aaa12e3f8c412e08c2d9ee232768e6

## About the Role

* 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferable 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

Tracing at Reddit is based on OTEL, Clickhouse, and Grafana. It's light on features, but currently processing tens of millions of events, and we will be building new ways for users to leverage and understand this data in the coming year.

As a member of the Observability team, your work will span these domains, which are rich with challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

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

 * 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