Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's Core Platform team as a Staff Engineer and become a technical leader, mentoring junior engineers while developing and designing innovative solutions to scale Reddit's platform. You will build and maintain high-performance APIs, ensuring optimal uptime and scalability for hundreds of millions of users. Your expertise in large-scale distributed systems and media delivery will be crucial in optimizing Reddit's media experience. This role offers significant impact and the opportunity to shape the future of Reddit. The position requires extensive experience in software development and a proven track record of building and scaling mission-critical systems. Reddit offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Software development experience in Golang or Python
• 10+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems
• 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
• Media delivery expertise including experience with media quality of experience metrics and have successfully optimized media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving different stages of the media stack

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