Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

Reddit, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 190,800 - 267,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and

Income Replacement Programs

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid VolunteerTime

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is hiring a Senior Engineer for the Core Platform team to design and scale API services used by hundreds of millions of users.

You will mentor junior engineers, deliver high-uptime backend systems, and influence roadmaps across distributed services written in Golang or Python. We expect 5+ years building large-scale distributed systems, strong communication across remote and in-person teams, and a track record delivering clean, well-tested code.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and backend services.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
• History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

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 optimize Reddit's media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world.

Skills

Golang

Python

Distributed systems

Communication

API platform architectures

Code quality

Media delivery

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.

The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build our listings, enabling posts, comments, media and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit.

As a Senior Engineer on this team, you'll be a technical coach and mentor. You'll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization. You'll work with your teammates to build and scale a media platform which will fuel the next wave of Reddit's growth. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world.

Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

You will:

• 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.

You have:

• Software development experience in Golang or Python
• 5+ 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 from back end systems to the user. Experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving different stages of the stack.

Benefits:

• 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
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

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 salary 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. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:

$190,800—$267,100 USD

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