Senior Platform Engineer, Core API — Remote & Scalable Impact

Reddit; Illinois; On-site; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare & Income Replacement

401k with employer match

Global benefits program

Family planning support

Gender-affirming care

Mental health & coaching

Flexible vacation & volunteer time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Core Platform team to mentor and guide, ensuring high uptime and performance while driving the roadmap for our API Platform.

You will design scalable solutions, build platform API projects, and coach junior engineers. You’ll work on services handling hundreds of thousands of transactions per second with 5+ 9's of availability, impacting hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

Qualifications

• Software development experience in Golang or Python.
• 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
• History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Media delivery expertise from back end systems to the user.

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.

Skills

Golang

Python

Distributed systems

API platforms

Communication

Media delivery

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Core Platform team to mentor and guide, ensuring high uptime and performance while driving the roadmap for our API Platform.

You will design scalable solutions, build platform API projects, and coach junior engineers. You’ll work on services handling hundreds of thousands of transactions per second with 5+ 9's of availability, impacting hundreds of millions of users worldwide.