Staff Systems Engineer, Integrations and Automation

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Reddit Corporate Engineering is seeking a Systems Engineer to manage and integrate third-party software applications, with a focus on Generative AI tool governance and security. This role involves implementing access policies, ensuring seamless connectivity between platforms and Generative AI tools, and maintaining software lifecycle management. You'll play a key role in integrating third-party software, shaping our Generative AI tool governance, and providing top-notch technical support to teams across the company. 

This position will design and implement policy around the role of Generative AI within our software stack, with a careful eye to balancing risk while still driving enablement of the business. You will be responsible for ensuring seamless and secure connectivity between our existing platforms and new Generative AI tools, with a special focus on software lifecycle management and implementing access policies through our secure service edge platform.

What We Can Expect From You:

• You have a proven track record of managing multiple software applications.
• You know your way around Okta, Cloudflare Access, and Google Workspace.
• You're always looking for ways to improve efficiency and can scale services using automation tools.
• You have top-notch analytical and problem-solving skills.
• You love sharing your knowledge and mentoring others in your area of expertise.
• You're a fantastic team player who's dedicated, a quick learner, and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• You can spearhead the design of a robust and scalable data infrastructure to support Gen AI solutions, ensuring seamless integration between data sources, pipelines, and storage.
• You can offer hands-on data engineering support to teams testing Gen AI solutions; troubleshoot data issues, optimize data workflows, and refine data architectures as needed.
• You can implement automation tools and frameworks to streamline data flow through the pipelines, guaranteeing data availability and reliability.
• You stay current on Generative AI trends and can evaluate and integrate cutting-edge tools, frameworks, and practices to enhance our capabilities continually.
• You're a natural leader who can mentor junior engineers and collaborating teams, fostering a culture of excellence, teamwork, and continuous learning.

Responsibilities​:

• Design, implement, and maintain third-party software integrations within the core internal tech stack (including SSO, provisioning, and other API-based data integrations).
• Create and implement governance policies for introducing and integrating Generative AI tools with the internal tech stack.
• Assess and provide technical guidance and support to teams looking to procure new software or leverage existing tools at Reddit.
• Collaborate closely with Security Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Support teams when evaluating software and during technical design phases.
• Find and implement internal process and automation enhancements.
• Serve as an escalation point for the global Corporate Engineering support operations team.
• Help grow and mentor the global Corporate Engineering team.
• Independently own and drive multiple projects and deliverables for the team.
• Take part in evaluating, recruiting, hiring, and developing team members.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years in an IT Engineering or IT Systems Administration role within a corporate setting.
• Proven ability to design and implement microservices, manage APIs, and build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), all while adhering to industry-standard testing methods.
• Ability to plan, drive, and support multiple simultaneous projects and initiatives.
• Solid understanding of identity and access management (IAM) concepts and protocols (e.g., SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
• Hands-on experience with Okta or similar identity providers, including user provisioning, authentication, and authorization.
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages for automating user lifecycle management and other integration tasks.
• Experience collaborating with Information Security teams to ensure secure integration practices.
• Excel