Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $217,000–$303,900 / yr
Posted: 74 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today

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Above market

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This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $186,425–$238,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $260k versus about $212k for comparable roles.

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About Reddit

Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.

Reddit currently has 89 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $216,700–$303,000 across 89 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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The Staff Software Engineer, Observability joins the Observability team to manage a suite of tools for understanding infrastructure at scale. You will work collaboratively to create and maintain foundational platforms, delivering software that improves the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components. Day-to-day responsibilities include automating event-driven development processes, sharing on-call duties, and contributing upstream changes to open-source projects. You will utilize technologies including Prometheus, Thanos, Vector, Clickhouse, Grafana, Otel, and Loki within a Kubernetes environment. The role addresses complex infrastructure problems involving distributed query systems, high-volume logging, and distributed tracing. You will solve technical challenges related to processing billions of data points per minute to help internal users better understand and debug their code.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.

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Skills

Prometheus Thanos Clickhouse Vector Grafana OTEL Kubernetes Loki Distributed Systems Observability Logging Distributed Tracing Performance Engineering event driven development

What you'll do

Create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.
Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
Automate critical aspects of the event-driven development process.
Contribute upstream changes to the open-source projects used by the team.
Share on-call responsibilities to ensure system reliability.
Provide feedback on the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit.
Perform performance engineering on distributed query systems and observability stacks.

What we're looking for

7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure.
Familiarity with distributed systems development.
Familiarity with specific tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, or Loki (preferred).
Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
Kubernetes controller or operator development experience (preferred).
Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software.
Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and being a self-starter on projects.
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.

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