Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's Core Platform team as a Senior Engineer and become a technical leader, mentoring junior engineers while developing and designing innovative solutions for scaling Reddit's platform. You will build and operate high-performance, scalable API projects, ensuring high uptime and strong performance. Your expertise in media delivery optimization and experience with large-scale distributed systems will be crucial. You'll collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and contribute to Reddit's continued growth, impacting hundreds of millions of users globally. This role offers significant responsibility and the opportunity to shape the future of Reddit's core infrastructure.

Requirements

• Software development experience in Golang or Python
• 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems
• Media delivery expertise from back end systems to the user. Experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving different stages of the stack
• Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with API platform service architectures
• History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

Responsibilities

• Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit
• Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization
• Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission
• Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9’s of availability
• Help us to optimize Reddit’s media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Generous time off for vacation
• Parental leave