# Senior Software Engineer - Messaging

Hiring organization: [Reddit](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/reddit)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/0fc48e7c-40f4-4c38-964c-130acb489d0d

Listed on Reddit's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Remote - United States
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 190800 – 267100 USD per year

## Summary

Reddit seeks a senior engineer to design and operate the distributed messaging infrastructure handling 50+ million messages per second across the platform. This role suits experienced systems engineers who enjoy building large-scale infrastructure and working with ML and search teams to solve complex distributed systems challenges.

_Our summary, not Reddit's wording._

## Skills named

Apache Kafka, C++, Java, Kubernetes, Python

## Required

- 5+ years building internet-scale software
- Experience with Kafka and Kubernetes
- Hands-on work on distributed messaging systems
- General purpose programming language experience
- Computer Science degree or equivalent

## Nice to have

- Background in machine learning storage infrastructure
- Strimzi experience
- Communication skills for cross-functional collaboration

Apply on Reddit's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8106246