Senior Software Engineer, Release Infrastructure

About Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and/or passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

“The front page of the internet," Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.

About the role

The mission of the Developer Experience org is to design, develop, and support tools and processes that make common developer workflows efficient and reliable. 

This role is specific to the Release Infrastructure team, which owns continuous integration, continuous deployment, source control, code review, code search, and a subset of internal developer tools.

Some of our present and future challenges include:

• Identifying and working on opportunities to improve developer efficiency, confidence, and service reliability.
• Building tools and infrastructure that makes writing, testing, and shipping code easy.
• Architecting and building the experience of continuous delivery for hundreds of engineers.
• Scaling our infrastructure and processes to serve a growing Reddit Engineering organization.
• Building a solid understanding of customer’s needs and identifying opportunities for improvements.
• Investigating, building, and integrating novel technologies (e.g. Generative AI) to solve problems for our developers.

As a senior engineer on this team, you’ll be immediately responsible for building and driving a vision for our developer experience from the first line of code to the artifact released at the end of the process. You’ll draw on your technical expertise and leadership skills to ensure our developer tooling is smooth, easy to use, and provides maximum value to an ever growing engineering organization. You’ll look for ways to engage with the engineering org, striving to understand users' pain points and perspectives, and to incorporate their feedback into designs and plans, presenting and sharing the team’s accomplishments.

What You’ll Do:

• Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals.
• Build: Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture around developer experience, including service frameworks, development environments, version control, CI and deployment tooling.
• Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors 
• Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering.
• Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience identifying and driving high impact projects that align with the company’s strategy.
• 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems and experience developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems.
• Experience working in the developer experience or developer productivity spaces, and experience working on developer tools, libraries, and frameworks.
• Experience with CI / CD tools (Drone, BuildKite, Github Actions, Argo Workflows/Rollouts/CD, Temporal, and other similar tools).
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud providers (AWS, GCP).
• A track record of leading large scale projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration.
• High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence decisions while working across the entire engineering org.
• Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, and quality.
• History of mentorship and technical leadership.

Bonuses:

• Go experience.
• Experience with Github Enterprise.
• Experience with mobile client CI/CD challenges.
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC.
• Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs.
• Experience with multi-region, multi-provider deployments.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• 401k Matching 
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave  
• Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.