Senior Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's GraphQL Team as a Senior Staff Software Engineer and contribute to the development and scaling of our next-generation GraphQL architecture. You will work on large-scale API infrastructure challenges, collaborating with various teams across Reddit. Responsibilities include evolving the GraphQL user platform, solving complex domain challenges, and expanding the architecture for global datacenters. This high-impact role requires significant experience in technical leadership, API platform design (especially with GraphQL), and object-oriented programming. Reddit offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical leadership including both setting and delivering on long-term vision
• 10+ years of coding in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Deep expertise designing large-scale user-facing API platforms, especially with GraphQL
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in product, ads, and data science
• Deep experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the team and organization’s long term technical strategy
• Evolve our GraphQL user platform to enable efficient, performant API contributions
• Solve sticky domain challenges like traffic shaping, service federation, and schema governance
• Expand GraphQL's architecture to operate concurrently across global datacenters
• Work with director+ leadership across Reddit to build and align our long-term platform roadmaps

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