Software Engineer - Data Movement Platform

About Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It's home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet, where users submit, vote, and comment on topics they care about. With over 100,000 active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is a leading source of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Reddit offers a flexible workforce. Employees can work remotely in any country where Reddit has a physical presence, or utilize office spaces if located nearby.

The Role: Software Engineer, Data Movement

The Data Movement team is looking to hire a Software Engineer excited to solve large-scale data platform and efficiency challenges. Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone. Our community generates over 100 billion events per day, ingested into a data warehouse supporting 55,000+ daily queries for ML and BI workloads. Critical teams rely on the Data Platform to generate revenue. The Data Movement team empowers the business to more efficiently process data and orchestrate these workloads.

What You'll Do

• Refine and maintain data infrastructure technologies to support ML and analytics workflows on data collected from hundreds of millions of users.
• Own the Data Movement Platform, enabling batch and stream data processing at Reddit.
• Invest in building new infrastructure for Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies, including contributing to the open-source community.
• Build automated solutions to minimize toil for data users and provide a declarative, self-service experience.
• Collaborate with teammates on shared on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the Data Platform.

Who You Might Be

• 2+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting, writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems, monitoring project progress, and showcasing proactive leadership as a self-starter.
• Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink, and/or modern cloud-based infrastructure.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration within a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs (workspace, professional development, caregiving support)
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Compensation

The base salary range for this position in the US is:

USD: $164,200—$229,900 USD

This range may vary based on factors such as skills, experience, and location. The role is also eligible for equity (RSUs) and potentially commission depending on the position. Reddit offers a comprehensive benefits package for US-based employees.