Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering

Remote; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; 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’s Infrastructure Engineering team is hiring across high-impact groups to deliver reliable, scalable platforms. You will own end-to-end delivery for major initiatives, design APIs, and apply data-driven experiments to optimize performance.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years building internet-scale software, experience with Golang, Python, and at least one of C++/Java, plus cloud infra (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS/GCP). Strong communication is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building internet-scale software, preferably distributed systems.
• Software development in Golang or Python, with C++/Java experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS and/or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with distributed messaging systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication to collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and client engineers to translate needs into scalable solutions.
• Own full software lifecycle for major initiatives from design to rollout and observability.
• Design and run A/B experiments using tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to improve product metrics.
• Build and maintain scalable APIs (GraphQL, REST, gRPC) and distributed backend services.
• Mentor teammates and improve development workflows through modern tooling and best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Golang

Python

C++/Java

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

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

The Infrastructure Engineering team enables Reddit to deliver Reliability, Performance, and Efficiency, with a single opinionated technology stack. We empower Reddit developers by delivering a reliable, scalable, and automated foundation - unifying compute, seamless deployments, robust storage, and high-performance messaging to maximize developer velocity and system resilience.

This centralized role hires across several high-impact teams, including:

• Messaging: Delivers a reliable, performant, and efficient platform to support asynchronous communication across all products and services at Reddit.
• Site Defense: Builds platforms that detect and mitigate bots, scraping, and abusive traffic while preserving a reliable experience for legitimate users across Reddit.
• Infrastructure Security: Builds platforms for service identity, secrets management, and secure access that make Reddit’s infrastructure secure by default.

What You’ll Do

• Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions.
• End-to-End Delivery: Own the full software lifecycle for major product initiatives from technical design docs and API contracts to development, testing, rollout, and observability.
• Metrics & Experimentation-Led Engineering: Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments. Work with tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to analyze user behavior, conversion funnels, and retention loops to make data-backed engineering decisions.
• API & System Performance: Build and maintain scalable APIs (GraphQL, REST, gRPC) and distributed backend services optimized for client consumption and consumer UI performance.
• Technical Rigor & Modern Tooling: Establish engineering best practices, improve developer workflows, mentor teammates, and use modern, AI-integrated tools to ship high-quality products efficiently.

In your day-to-day, you will:

• Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals.
• Build: Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture around authentication, authorization and identity.
• Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors
• Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering.
• Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities

Who you might be:

• 3+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on distributed systems infrastructure or infrastructure security.
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java
• Experience with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP)
• Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed messaging systems.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.

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