Senior Software Engineer - DevX

Details

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

This role sits at the center of building platforms, services, systems, and workflows that improve how Reddit engineers develop software. You will design and build developer tooling (including agentic and AI-powered workflows), backend systems, infrastructure, and integrations that improve developer velocity, confidence, and service reliability across Reddit Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally across Reddit Engineering to understand developer needs, quickly prototype solutions, and iterate based on feedback.
• Design and build backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and platform capabilities that improve developer workflows across Reddit.
• Build scalable and reliable systems across both AI-powered developer workflows and the core non-AI systems engineers rely on every day.
• Lead high-impact projects across Reddit’s developer tooling ecosystem by writing and reviewing code and design docs, aligning stakeholders, and making pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
• Build tools and integrations that connect developer workflows with Reddit’s existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems.
• Design and implement maintainable APIs, services, libraries, and platforms that support internal developer tooling at scale.
• Improve the team’s tools, processes, and best practices while raising the bar for reliability, usability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and help shape a roadmap that reflects real developer needs and delivers meaningful improvements to Reddit’s engineering organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship professional software development experience, with backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering as a core strength.
• 3+ years of industry experience working on large-scale distributed systems, including building and improving highly scalable and reliable services.
• Strong proficiency with Go, and significant experience with Go in production systems.
• Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, or gRPC.
• Experience building platforms, developer tools, libraries, frameworks, or internal systems used by other engineers.
• Experience with infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud providers, or other systems that support modern software development and delivery.
• Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools and workflows, with curiosity and judgment about where these tools can meaningfully improve developer productivity.
• A track record of leading large, ambiguous, high-impact projects that require cross-team collaboration, technical judgment, stakeholder alignment, and clear ownership from problem definition through delivery.
• A user-focused mindset, with strong empathy for internal engineering users and a focus on usability, reliability, scalability, and quality.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and navigate complex requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and helping teams make pragmatic tradeoffs.
• A self-directed, action-oriented approach; comfortable operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and driving work forward even when the path is not fully defined.

Bonus Points

• Experience working in developer experience, developer productivity, internal platforms, or developer tooling.
• Experience building tools or workflows for internal engineering users.
• Experience building or extending CI/CD systems, and partnering with teams that own build, test, and release workflows.
• Experience with GitHub Enterprise Server or large-scale source control platforms.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience measuring the impact of platform or developer productivity work through experimentation, measured rollouts, analytics, reliability metrics, or qualitative feedback.

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

Compensation and Pay Transparency

The base salary range for this U.S.-based position is:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees.

Interview Recording & Candidate Privacy

In select roles and locations, interviews may be recorded, transcribed and summarized by AI; candidates will have the opportunity to opt out prior to scheduled interviews. During interviews Reddit will collect identifiers, professional/employment information, sensory information (audio/video), and any other information the candidate chooses to share. Recordings are deleted promptly after making a hiring decision. See Reddit's Candidate Privacy Policy for more details.