Reddit
Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion Platform
US
UTC-10 to UTC-5 $217k to $304k per year Full time
Lead or Staff
- Where you can live
- Remote - United States
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-5
- Salary
- USD 217,000 to 303,900 per year
- Posted
- September 15, 2026
Summary from the posting
As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the development and evolution of Reddit’s Ingestion Platform.
- Design, write, and deliver reliable software for distributed data movement across streaming and batch workloads, with a focus on availability, scalability, latency, correctness, and cost efficiency.
- Own the architecture and evolution of the platform’s control plane and data plane, including pipeline APIs, controllers, connectors, target managers, schemas, and sink integrations.
- Expand the platform beyond Kafka-to-BigQuery by helping deliver production-ready paths to S3/GCS and Apache Iceberg, as well as transformations, deduplication, dead-letter queues, and other reusable capabilities.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Reddit's own career page.