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# Staff Software Engineer , Observability

- **Company:** reddit Inc.
- **Location:** Beverly Hills, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $217,000 - $303,900
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Programming, Open Source Technology, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Data Processing, Grafana, Kubernetes, Free and Open-Source Software, Vertica
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/staff-software-engineer-observability-beverly-hills-ca--c4e21fe2-efa4-4b17-8a6d-4a270a06cc71

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Website Conversion, Software Development, Open Source, Infrastructure Software, Technical Recruiting, Performance Engineering, Distributed Computing, Data Processing, Debugging Skills, * 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

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