Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform

Reddit; United States; Remoto; USD 191.000 - 267.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Healthcare benefits

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Parental leave

Descrizione del lavoro

Reddit is seeking a Platform Minded Engineer to advance the Shreddit web platform, focusing on architecture, performance, and developer tooling to serve hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

You will drive end-to-end initiatives across asset delivery, HTML processing, observability, and reliability while mentoring engineers to raise technical excellence and ensure scalable, high‑quality web experiences.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience tracing, profiling and tuning performance of network calls, rendering, or data access paths.
• Experience implementing AI workflows and tooling to support high quality web development.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining robust APIs using REST/GraphQL/gRPC/HTTP/Thrift.

Mansioni

• Design and evolve the Shreddit web platform’s architecture, performance, and developer tooling for reddit.com.
• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of cross‑service initiatives in areas like asset delivery, HTML processing, observability and reliability.
• Maintain high quality standards through code reviews, design doc evaluations, and feedback on product specs.
• Mentor junior and mid‑level engineers and elevate technical excellence across the team.

Conoscenze

Platform mindset

Pragmatic builder

Effective collaborator

Continuous learner

Formazione

Bachelor's in CS or related field

Strumenti

REST APIs

GraphQL

gRPC

HTTP

Thrift basics

Descrizione del lavoro

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.

Who We Are

The Web Platform team leads the development of the Shreddit platform, the heart of reddit.com . We focus on platform-wide architecture, performance optimizations, operational health and upleveling our web developer experience for one of the most trafficked sites on the internet.

With us, you’ll turn ambiguous platform problems into clear designs and ship high‑quality, observable, well‑tested solutions that other teams rely on every day.

You’ll drive key platform initiatives, including optimizing Shreddit's global performance, evolving HTML rendering, and enhancing web infrastructure resiliency and scale. You will also boost developer experience through AI tooling, automated workflows, and streamlined CI/CD pipelines.

Who You Are

• Platform Minded Engineer: You empower engineers to deliver safe, scalable, and high-performance solutions by standardizing cross-organizational patterns, workflows, and tooling.
• Pragmatic Builder: You strike the right balance between rapid iteration and architectural rigor, delivering scalable solutions without getting bogged down by unnecessary processes.
• Effective Collaborator: You excel in communicating complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Continuous Learner: You have a deep curiosity for emerging technologies and actively keep up with modern industry trends, standards, and performance optimizations.

What You’ll Do

• Build with impact: Design and evolve the Shreddit web platform’s architecture, performance, and developer tooling that powers reddit.com for hundreds of millions of users across the world.
• Full-Lifecycle Development: Lead end‑to‑end delivery of complex, cross‑service initiatives in areas like asset delivery, html processing, observability and reliability for core web experiences.
• Quality & Velocity: Move fast while maintaining high quality standards through thorough code reviews, detailed design doc evaluations, and constructive feedback on product specs and UI mocks.
• Mentorship & Engineering Standards: Help establish developer workflows, champion best practices, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers to elevate technical excellence across the team.

Technical Qualifications

• Operational Health Excellence: Experience tracing, profiling and tuning performance of network calls, rendering, or data access paths, monitoring and reporting their operational health.
• AI-First Workflows Expertise: Experience implementing AI workflows and tooling to support and accelerate high quality web development, optimization and debugging.
• API & System Design: Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining robust APIs using protocols such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, HTTP, or Thrift basics.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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

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/ .

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The base salary range for this position is:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

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