Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce. Who We Are: The Infrastructure organization enables Reddit to deliver Reliability, Performance and Efficiency, with a single opinionated technology stack. The Content Platform team within Infrastructure additionally focuses on empowering product teams to build the best possible Content-related experiences, easily and reliably. This is a high-impact team that owns the Tier-0 services and core data models that power some of the most visible aspects of our product - viewing a feed, posting, commenting, upvoting - and we work closely with teams like Consumer, Ads, Feeds, Storage and Ranking. This team is also responsible for running and maintaining R2 – Reddit’s monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit. We are looking to hire a Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your passion for building and maintaining high quality code, scaling Tier-0 infrastructure and building high-leverage platform services will enable our partner product teams to deliver tangible user value. What You’ll Do: As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems that comprise the Content Platform at Reddit. You will also: * Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products * Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’s monolith Python legacy stack * Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications * Develop judgment to identify and discuss gaps in our current platform; Help evolve it for next 2+ years of growth * Work collaboratively with wide variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit; actively engage in soliciting customer feedback  * Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit * Continue improving your own technical abilities, acumen and soft skills Who You Might Be: * 3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code  * BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience * Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java * Experience working with one or more databases like Cassandra, Postgres, Redis  * Experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure like Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP * Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate with cross-functional teams * Prior experience with scaled, high rate platform services and API design is a plus Benefits: * Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs * 401k Match * Family Planning Support * Gender-Affirming Care * Mental Health & Coaching Benefits * Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off * Generous 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 salary 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. The base salary range for this position is: $164,200—$229,900 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. 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