Staff Software Engineer - Large-Scale, User-Centric Backend

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a senior product-focused engineer to design and scale backend architecture powering Home, Communities, and Notifications for hundreds of millions of users. You will collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and Frontend Engineers to ship high-impact features.

You will drive metrics, run experiments, and craft robust APIs (GraphQL/REST/gRPC) with scalable data stores to support massive traffic.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience shipping cross-functional product features.
• Strong backend/API design with GraphQL/REST/gRPC.
• Proficiency with high-throughput caching and distributed datastores.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver cross-functional product architecture aligned with business needs.
• Drive metrics and run experimentation-led engineering.
• Collaborate with PMs, designers, data scientists, and frontend engineers to ship features.
• Scale products used by hundreds of millions of users.

Skills

Distributed systems

Product architecture

Experimentation & metrics

Cross-functional collaboration

User-centric design

Tools

GraphQL

REST

gRPC

Caching

Job description

Reddit is seeking a senior product-focused engineer to design and scale backend architecture powering Home, Communities, and Notifications for hundreds of millions of users. You will collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and Frontend Engineers to ship high-impact features.

You will drive metrics, run experiments, and craft robust APIs (GraphQL/REST/gRPC) with scalable data stores to support massive traffic.