Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

at Reddit

📍 New York City, United States

USD 190,800-267,100 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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API @ 3 Communication @ 6 Distributed Systems @ 6 Go Python @ 4 Software Development @ 4

Details

Reddit’s Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build 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’ll be a technical coach and mentor. You’ll use your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap for an ever-growing engineering organization. You’ll work with your teammates to build and scale a media platform that fuels the next wave of Reddit’s growth, directly impacting 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 to achieve our mission
Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9’s of availability
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; 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, including experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving 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