Senior Software Engineer, Storage
$217K–$304K
Remote - United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jan 6, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
About the job
Build and operate Reddit’s large-scale storage and caching infrastructure, ensuring it scales reliably for products and internal users.
What you'll do
- Shape the team’s long-term technical strategy and maintain storage infrastructure for products serving hundreds of millions of users.
- Own managed and self-hosted infrastructure for data reads, writes, and storage, including operational tooling and automation.
- Mentor engineers designing and building services used across Reddit.
What they ask for
- Experience building internet-scale software, preferably focused on machine learning storage infrastructure.
- Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages.
- Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes in distributed storage systems.
- Excellent communication skills for collaboration across engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
Nice to have
- Experience with Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis, or Memcache.
Pay
$217,000 — $303,900 USD (base salary)
Tools
Golang, Python, C++, Java, Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra, Redis
AI focus
Partner with ML/AI users on storage solutions; machine learning storage infrastructure is preferred experience. In select roles and locations, interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI, with an option to opt out.
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