Staff Software Engineer , Observability
Core
Building and maintaining foundational infrastructure tools for monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing at scale for Reddit's platform.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure/Observability)
Builds
High-scale observability stack (Prometheus, Thanos, Vector, Clickhouse, OTEL, Grafana) serving hundreds of millions of users.
Domain
Internet-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, observability
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Internet-scale software development, distributed systems, Kubernetes, Kubernetes controllers/operators, systems troubleshooting, open-source contribution
Preferred skills
Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, OTEL, Loki
Technologies
Prometheus, Thanos, Vector, Clickhouse, OTEL, Grafana, Loki, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Create and maintain foundational platform for Reddit's infrastructure, deliver software to improve availability/scalability/latency/efficiency of observability components, contribute to technical/strategic direction of eventing, automate event-driven development processes, share on-call responsibilities, contribute upstream changes to open source projects
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact