Staff Software Engineer, Data Access

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Our 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.

As a staff engineer on the Data Access team, your work will be crucial to supporting Reddit’s data-driven Sales & Marketing stakeholders through improving this unique internal platform which provides a great source of overall revenue generation for the company. Since this is a growing team, the role provides room for creative problem solving and independence.

How you will contribute:

• Impact the development of the team and organization’s long term strategy.
• Refine and maintain our data visualizations to support real-time analysis of hundreds of millions of users.
• Be a key contributor in the scaling and integration of in-house technology company-wide.
• Use the unique programming language, Nim, for frontend and backend work.
• Experiment with mass amounts of data and share strategic data-driven insights.

Who you might be:

• 7+ years of experience building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in a production environment.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, sales and marketing.
• Experience with programming languages such as Nim, Rust, Go, Python, C++, Java.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field. 
• Experience working with infrastructure technologies Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with SQL and query parsing, generating and planning. Bonus points for database maintenance.

What you’ll learn:

• How to be a steward for large amounts of data.
• How to be a technical liaison between engineering and Sales & Marketing.
• The ins and outs of how programming languages work, parsing and query planning.
• Best practices for data and how to thrive in a data-driven environment.

Benefits: 

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• Retirement Saving plan with matching contributions 
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Commuter Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

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