Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create and design innovative solutions to enhance Reddit's scalability.

• Develop platform API projects that will expand across the organization.

• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers on the team.

• Build, deliver, and maintain services capable of handling millions of transactions per second while ensuring 5+ 9’s of availability.

• Enhance Reddit’s media experience for hundreds of millions of global users.

• Develop, operate, and scale the media platform that supports Reddit users worldwide.

• Design, construct, and manage essential foundational services, platforms, and libraries for Reddit engineering teams.

• Assist in creating an engineering roadmap that aligns with organizational growth objectives.

• Act as a technical coach and mentor.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; such as Python, Go, or similar.

• Over 5 years of experience working with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.

• Strong communication skills.

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote setting and engage in complex discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proficiency with GraphQL, gRPC, Thrift, Protobuf, and the capability to design and implement maintainable APIs.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).

• A track record of writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

• Expertise in media delivery from backend systems to end users.

• Experience in optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery by enhancing various stages of the stack.

• Knowledge of media processing and global media distribution.

• Experience with image scaling, cropping, progressive JPEG, WebP, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, streaming protocols, and video compression standards (H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1).

• Experience with distribution from user origin, through CDN, to the end-user experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.

• 401k with Employer Match.

• Global Benefit programs that cater to 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.

• Equity in the form of restricted stock units.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous time off for vacation and parental leave.