# Staff Software Engineer , Observability

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/122f63e4-137f-4b06-bc32-8272dd6de6b2

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: Remote - United States
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 217000 – 303900 USD per year

## Summary

A Staff-level infrastructure engineer focused on building and scaling Reddit's observability platform, which handles billions of data points daily through tools like Prometheus, Thanos, and OpenTelemetry. This role suits experienced engineers who enjoy distributed systems challenges and want to contribute both to internal infrastructure and upstream open-source projects.

_Our summary, not Reddit's wording._

## Skills named

ClickHouse, Grafana, Grafana Loki, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Thanos

## Required

- 7+ years developing internet-scale software, preferably infrastructure-focused
- Distributed systems development experience
- Kubernetes or similar distributed systems experience
- Strong systems and software troubleshooting skills
- Ability to engineer large systems and self-manage projects
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills

## Nice to have

- Familiarity with Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, OpenTelemetry, or Loki
- Kubernetes controller or operator development experience

Apply on Reddit's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8131228