Staff Software Engineer , Observability
$217K–$304K
Remote - United States · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years developing internet-scale software; infrastructure experience preferred.
About the job
Build and maintain Reddit’s observability platform across monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing, improving the infrastructure tools engineers use to understand and operate their services.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain foundational infrastructure and observability software, improving availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency.
- Automate critical parts of event-driven development and contribute to the technical and strategic direction of eventing.
- Share on-call responsibilities and contribute changes to open-source projects used by the team.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure.
- Experience developing on Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
- Strong troubleshooting capabilities across systems and software.
- Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and independently driving projects; excellent communication skills.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with distributed systems and tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, or Loki.
- Kubernetes controller or operator development experience.
Pay
$217,000 — $303,900 USD (base salary)
Tools
Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, OTEL, Kubernetes, Loki
AI focus
AI may be used to record, transcribe, and summarize interviews in select roles and locations; candidates may opt out before scheduled interviews.
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