Software Engineer, Ingestion Platform
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14 open ingestion roles across 5 companies are on ApplySarthi right now, most of them in Bengaluru (4), Mumbai (1).
- Sr. Software Engineer - Ingestion Core teamDatabricks
- Software Engineer - Content IngestionRoku
- Sr Program Manager (OCI Rack Ingestion)Oracle
- Specialist - Data Ingestion OperationsExperian · mumbai
What ingestion roles keep asking for: SQL (71%), Observability (50%), Excel (43%), Databricks (36%), Python (36%), System design (36%), Java (29%), Looker (29%) — counted across their open postings here.
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Reddit has 150 open roles listed here.
- International Payroll Analyst
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, App Ads Modeling
- Senior Director, Data Science
- Senior Technical Solutions Manager
- Senior Product Manager, Go-To-Market Systems
Counted across 14 company job boards, updated as roles open and close.
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The Data Movement team is looking to hire a Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale data platform and efficiency challenges.
Reddit’s 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.
Our community of users generates over 100B events per day, each of which is ingested into a data warehouse that sees 55,000+ daily queries. We utilize this data to enable both batch and streaming based ML and BI workloads at the company. Critical teams such as ads, feed generation, and ML experimentation rely on the Data Platform to generate revenue for Reddit. The Data Movement team within this group is specifically responsible for empowering the business to more efficiently process data and orchestrate these data workloads.
As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems.
You will:
- Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support ML and analytics workflows on data collected from hundreds of millions of users.
- Own the Data Movement Platform used to enable batch and stream data processing at Reddit.
- Invest in building new infrastructure for Spark, Flink, and Airflow technologies at Reddit, including contributing to the open source community as needed.
- Build automated solutions to minimize toilsome work for data users at Reddit and provide a declarative, self-service experience for working with data.
- Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s Data Platform.
If you have a passion for building and maintaining high quality code, want to improve how Reddit makes strategic decisions at the company level, and are excited about applying engineering best practices to one of the most powerful corpus of data in the world, then this is the team for you!
Who you might be:
- 2+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Proficient in object-oriented programming languages like Python, Scala, Go, or Java.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale systems, diligently monitoring project progress, and showcasing proactive leadership as a self-starter on diverse projects.
- Experience working with cloud services, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Spark, Flink and/or working with modern cloud-based infrastructure.
- Excellent communication skills tailored for effective collaboration within both a service-oriented team and the broader organizational context.
Benefits:
- 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
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
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