We are heycar. We are an international team from all kinds of backgrounds. We have different talents, degrees and lunch preferences. But we do have one thing in common: the quality of our product is key to everything we do. Because we want to make the market for used cars better than ever before. And who are you? Are you looking for the vibe of a genuine start-up but with the safety of being part of an established corporate group? With plenty of freedom to come up with new ideas? You can help to shape something incredible! That’s because heycar is not just growing rapidly, but in a sustainable way as well. This means: there are dozens of ways for you to get ahead here and help us move forward. If you already have some experience and are looking for a new challenge, then you’re the person we’re looking for. Together, we can build the next big thing. How does that sound to you?
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The position is a mix of software engineering and cloud engineering; a lot of the time, we are writing software to implement important workflows that automate the operation of our vast production infrastructure.
You will also work with our product teams to make the underlying Storage technologies work better for Reddit’s main workloads, including defining and improving the application’s data models and data access patterns, and lots of times, this also involves data-driven analysis and tuning of the Storage stack to make step function improvements to the end-to-end data path. Our caching layer servers 100s of millions of queries/second serving 100s of billions of keys. We are responsible for efficiently storing 100s of terabytes of data. As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth. You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.
A successful candidate will;
- Develop reliable and efficient workflows to automate a large number of operational tasks that are essential to operating the critical Storage infrastructure for Reddit.
- Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go and sometimes Python.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of caching mechanisms for high-performance, large-scale storage systems.
- Collaborate closely with team members and stakeholders to incorporate caching solutions to broader storage system use cases.
Who You Might Be:
- 5+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in storage infrastructure roles.
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, Java, C++
- Prior experience with Storage technologies is a plus (Redis, Valkey, Memcached, Cassandra, Postgres, MySQL, Zookeeper).
- Prior experience with operating a large scale critical infrastructure system with a focus on automation and workflow development is a plus, especially in a role where they were required to be oncall.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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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.
The base pay range for this position is:
$190,800 - $267,100 USD
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