Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs that fit yourl

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation Paid Volunteer Time

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture of our global media infrastructure. You will define strategies for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering video and audio content with low latency and high availability.

You will mentor multiple teams, set engineering standards, and collaborate with ML/AI groups to enable media recommendations and GenAI inference, while evangelizing AI as a development tool across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer track record.
• Proven ability to design and operate large-scale distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong written and verbal communication to influence technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Architect scale designs for global media processing and delivery with high availability.
• Build and optimize backend services for ingestion, transcoding, and CDN routing.
• Partner with ML/AI teams to map media recommendation and GenAI inference roadmaps.
• Set engineering standards and define SLOs/SLAs for media operations.
• Mentor multiple engineering teams and translate product needs into technical roadmaps.
• Adopt AI-assisted tooling to accelerate prototyping while validating outputs.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Microservices

Technical Leadership

Strategic Thinking

Communication

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.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture of our media infrastructure. In this role, you will define the strategy for how we ingest, process, store, and deliver video and audio content at Reddit. You will tackle complex technical challenges while also helping shape our media product strategy to deliver high-quality media experiences globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of our global media processing and delivery infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability media for millions of users.
• Optimize Media Pipelines: Build and optimize resilient backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing.
• Drive AI Integration: Partner with ML/AI teams to build a roadmap that supports media recommendation, intelligent content moderation, and GenAI inference.
• Set the Standard: Establish engineering best practices, design the next generation of our media services, define strict SLOs/SLAs for our media operations.
• Mentorship Leadership: Guide and empower multiple engineering teams. Translate complex product requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and drive alignment across the company.
• Leverage Modern Tooling: Thoughtfully utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgment to validate and own the final outputs. Evangelize AI as a tool.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer.
• Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence technical direction and navigate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing the engineers involved.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence.

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

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