# Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. The Infrastructure organization has the mission of building and delivering the compute orchestration environment, storage and data systems, and essential platform services behind all of Reddit. The Infrastructure organization is looking to hire a backend software engineer to work collaboratively on a team dedicated to building out Reddit’s multi-cloud compute infrastructure. This is a high impact role where you will contribute to design, implementation, and operations for one of the largest sites in the world. The Infrastructure team’s mission is to provide a platform for teams to independently and effectively run their compute workloads in a performant, reliable, and secure way. The position is a mix of software engineering and devops

- **Id**: 4094331
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/reddit-principal-software-engineer-infrastructure>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T16:07:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T20:52:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5830
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Parental leave, Professional development, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Online Forums & Community Platforms, Social Networks

## Company

- **Id**: 16
- **Name**: Reddit
- **Domain**: reddit.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/reddit>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 26
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.654
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 67
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 286700
- **Max**: 401400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 401400

## Technologies

- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T20:52:36Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 92 · green card filings: 20; Filings 12m: 92

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 68
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T21:29:14Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 401400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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