Staff Software Engineer - Continuous Integration, Developer Experience at Reddit

This role is designed for a seasoned leader in the **Developer Experience (DevEx)** space. Despite the "Mid-level" tag in the metadata, the requirements—7+ year

Work type: remote

Location: Remote - United States

Salary: $217,000 – $303,900/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

This role is designed for a seasoned leader in the **Developer Experience (DevEx)** space. Despite the "Mid-level" tag in the metadata, the requirements—7+ years of experience and a "Staff" title—indicate they are looking for a heavy hitter who has managed large-scale CI/CD infrastructure and distributed systems. You should be an expert in tools like Kubernetes, BuildKite, or Bazel, with a proven track record of solving bottleneck issues for hundreds of fellow engineers. The compensation is a major draw, with a base salary reaching up to **$303,900**, plus equity and a 401k match. It offers the rare combination of a **fully remote** US-based lifestyle with the technical complexity of one of the internet’s most-trafficked platforms. You’ll have the autonomy to steer the technical roadmap and experiment with Generative AI to streamline the SDLC. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Have architected build systems for large, distributed engineering organizations. * Prioritize "developer happiness" and enjoy reducing toil in the deployment pipeline. * Are comfortable mentoring senior engineers and influencing cross-functional stakeholders. * Possess a "Staff-level" mindset—meaning you care as much about strategy and empathy as you do about Go or Kubernetes.

Job Description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit [www.redditinc.com](http://www.redditinc.com/).

The mission of the Developer Experience org is to design, develop, and support tools and processes that make common developer workflows efficient and reliable.

This role is specific to the Build and Code Platform team, which owns continuous integration, build infrastructure, source control, code review, code search, and a subset of related internal developer tools.

Some of our present and future challenges include:

• Scaling Reddit’s build infrastructure, code review experience, self-hosted code storage infrastructure, and other tools to serve a growing Reddit Engineering organization.

• Designing and instrumenting the next evolution of Reddit’s build and continuous integration tooling.

• Architecting and building an integrated SDLC platform to reduce the length of feedback cycles.

• Making writing, linting, reviewing, testing, and shipping code easy.

• Improving the code review experience for every developer at Reddit.

• Building a solid understanding of customer’s needs, identifying opportunities to improve developer efficiency, confidence, and service reliability, and executing on those opportunities.

• Integrating novel technologies (e.g. Generative AI) to solve problems for our developers with flexibility to adapt to a rapidly changing technological landscape.

What You’ll Do:

• Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that accelerate development to help Reddit achieve its goals.

• Build: Execute on a strategy to create a developer experience that reduces toil and provides faster and higher quality feedback around all parts of the SDLC, including source control, builds, testing, code review, code integration, knowledge search, and more.

• Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors.

• Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering.

• Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.

• 7+ years of experience identifying, driving, and executing high impact projects that align with the company’s strategy.

• 5+ years of experience working in developer experience, infrastructure, or platform teams, and experience working on developer tools, libraries, and frameworks.

• 5+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems and experience developing and improving highly scalable and reliable systems.

• Experience with CI / CD tools (Drone, BuildKite, Github Actions, Bazel, Argo Workflows/Rollouts/CD, Temporal, and other adjacent tools).

• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud providers (AWS, GCP).

• A track record of leading large scale technical projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration.

• The ability to disambiguate complex problems, align stakeholders, and aggressively prioritize to execute on projects effectively.

• Excellent communication skills that you employ to drive toward consensus, navigate disagreements, influence decisions and priorities, and empower others.

• A strong sense of empathy, curiosity, and humility that drive a desire to deeply understand developer pain points, continuously improve systems, and ultimately deliver a delightful user experience.

• A history of mentorship and technical leadership.

• Go experience.

• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC.

• Experience with Github Enterprise Server.

• Experience with mobile client CI/CD challenges (Bitrise, MacStadium, Orka, Gradle).

• Experience designing and implementing platforms.

• Experience with multi-region, multi-provider deployments.

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k with Employer Match

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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