Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

at Reddit

📍 San Francisco, United States

USD 190,800-267,100 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

Used Tools & Technologies

Required Skills & Competences
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Details

Reddit is a community of communities. The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build our listings, enabling posts, comments, media and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit.

As a Senior Engineer on this team, you will be a technical coach and mentor. You will draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization. You will work with your teammates to build and scale a media platform which will fuel the next wave of Reddit’s growth. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world.

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
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

Requirements

Software development experience in Golang or Python
5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems
Excellent communication skills; able to partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
Familiarity with API platform service architectures
History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
Media delivery expertise from back end systems to the user; experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery across different stages of the stack

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 & Other Notes

Base salary range for this position: $190,800 - $267,100 USD
In addition to base salary, role is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units and, depending on the position offered, may be eligible to receive a commission
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