Senior Remote Media Infrastructure Engineer

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401k Match

Global Benefits

Family Planning

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health

Flexible Vacation

Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next version of our media infrastructure. In this role, you will define the work on the technical components of how we ingest, process, store, and deliver video and audio content at the company.

You will tackle complex technical challenges to support our media product strategy and deliver high-quality media experiences globally. You will work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years in large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years in professional software development with Go, Python, Java, or C++.
• Experience designing maintainable APIs (GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC).
• Experience with Redis and distributed caching.
• Familiarity with image processing and delivery tech (image scaling, formats like WebP).
• Knowledge of streaming protocols (HLS, MPEG-DASH, MP4) and video codecs (H.264/HEVC/VP9/AV1).
• Strong organization and communication skills for remote collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to build new media features.
• Contribute to full development cycle: design, code, test, experiment, analyze, and ship.
• Review code and design docs, provide feedback on specs and mocks.
• Mentor junior engineers and help raise technical standards across the team.
• Balance speed with quality to deliver brand-new media products at scale.
• Work with client and platform engineers to improve media performance globally.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C++

GraphQL

REST APIs

gRPC

SQL

Distributed systems

Video streaming

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

FFMPEG

GPAC

AVFoundation

VideoToolbox

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next version of our media infrastructure. In this role, you will define the work on the technical components of how we ingest, process, store, and deliver video and audio content at the company.

You will tackle complex technical challenges to support our media product strategy and deliver high-quality media experiences globally. You will work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on