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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 redditinc. com . This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce. The Data Movement team is looking to hire a Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale data platform and efficiency challenges. Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc. com.

Our community of users generates over 100B events per day, each of which is ingested into a data warehouse that sees 55,000+ daily queries. We utilize this data to enable both batch and streaming based ML and BI workloads at the company. Critical teams such as ads, feed generation, and ML experimentation rely on the Data Platform to generate revenue for Reddit. The Data Movement team within this group is specifically responsible for empowering the business to more efficiently process data and orchestrate these data workloads. As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems. You will: - Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support ML and analytics workflows on data collected from hundreds of millions of users. - Own the Data Movement Platform used to enable batch and stream data processing at Reddit. - Invest in building new infrastructure for Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies at Reddit, including contributing to the open source community as needed. - Build automated solutions to minimize toilsome work for data users at Reddit and provide a declarative, self-service experience for working with data. - Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s Data Platform. If you have a passion for building and maintaining high quality code, want to improve how Reddit makes strategic decisions at the company level, and are excited about applying engineering best practices to one of the most powerful corpus of data in the world, then this is the team for you! 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, diligently monitoring project progress, and showcasing proactive leadership as a self-starter on diverse projects. - Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink and/or working with modern cloud-based infrastructure. - Excellent communication skills tailored for effective collaboration within both a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context.

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