Senior Software Engineer

Segment (Twilio); Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 190,800 - 267,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Global benefits

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching

Job summary

Reddit seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable systems, integrating ML/AI and owning software design end-to-end. You will work with management to align technical and business goals while collaborating with cross-functional partners on new features and fixes, with a full-time telecommuting option.

Applicants should hold a Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering and five years of related experience, with strong skills in distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time search.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or closely related quantitative discipline.
• Five (5) years of experience in related field.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code that adheres to best practices.
• Design and build solutions that span systems and own the software design end to end.
• Work with cross functional partners for feature development, bug fixes, and new system design to gather input and requirements.
• Proactively identify technical challenges and propose innovative solutions that align with the team's goals and contribute to advertiser revenue growth.

Skills

Distributed systems

ML integration

AI training

CI/CD pipelines

Data pipelines

Monitoring & logging

Observability

On-call management

Real-time search

SQL

NoSQL

Unit testing

Code quality

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Job Duties: Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code that adheres to best practices. Design and build solutions that span systems and own the software design end to end. Work in partnership with management and senior leadership to ensure alignment between technical and business goals. Work with cross functional partners for feature development, bug fixes, and new system design to gather input and requirements. Proactively identify technical challenges and propose innovative solutions that align with the team's goals and contribute to the overall success of advertiser revenue growth. Full-time telecommuting is an option.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or closely related quantitative discipline and five (5) years of experience in job offered or in any occupation in a related field.

Special Skill Requirements: (1) Designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems (2) Applied machine learning integration (3) Generative AI training and integration (4) continuous integration and deployment pipelines (5) Data pipelines and ETL (6) monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (7) Observability and on-call management (8) Real-time search and ad ranking (9) search systems (10) SQL and NoSQL (11) unit testing and code quality. Any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience is acceptable. Full-time telecommuting is an option.

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies.

The base pay range for this position is: $190,800.00 - $267,100.00 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.