Senior Core Platform Engineer - API (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Benefits

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer PTO

Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Core Platform team. You will mentor engineers, design scalable platform APIs, and drive media delivery improvements that support hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

You will help build services that scale to very high transaction rates while maintaining reliability and performance across a fully remote organization. Join us to shape the future of Reddit's infrastructure and user experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
• History of clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Media delivery expertise from backend to user, optimizing performance and scale.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Golang or Python

Distributed systems

Communication

API architectures

Code quality

Media delivery

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Core Platform team. You will mentor engineers, design scalable platform APIs, and drive media delivery improvements that support hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

You will help build services that scale to very high transaction rates while maintaining reliability and performance across a fully remote organization. Join us to shape the future of Reddit's infrastructure and user experience.