Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform: Scale APIs

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, 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.