Senior Software Engineer, Media Foundations

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

📋 Description

• Establish technical elements for the ingestion, processing, storage, and distribution of video and audio content at Reddit.

• Assist in developing the next iteration of Reddit’s media infrastructure.

• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to implement product and business strategies.

• Create innovative products and features.

• Participate in the complete development lifecycle, including technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.

• Review code and design documentation, providing constructive feedback on product specifications and mockups.

• Contribute to engineering standards and enhance developer workflows.

• Advocate for best practices and guide junior engineers.

• Balance the pace of development with product quality.

• Work with client and platform engineers to enhance media performance across Reddit, ensuring better content delivery globally.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 3 years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.

• More than 5 years of practical software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++).

• Proficient in GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, Thrift basics, with the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.

• Experienced with distributed caching layers and large-scale data storage systems such as Redis.

• Knowledgeable in image processing and delivery technologies, including image scaling, cropping, and formats such as progressive JPEG and WebP.

• Familiar with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, and other streaming protocols, along with video compression standards (H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1).

• Strong organizational abilities, with a capacity to prioritize tasks and meet project deadlines.

• Excellent communication skills; able to effectively collaborate with remote teams and discuss complex subjects with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• A curious mindset with a dedication to keeping informed about advancements in video compression technologies.

• Solid understanding of video visual quality metrics, including VMAF and PSNR.

• Practical expertise with FFMPEG, GPAC, and similar media frameworks.

• Experience with client-side technologies and media libraries such as AVFoundation, VideoToolbox, and video prefetching.

• Familiar with background data fetching techniques.

• Strong data analysis capabilities using SQL.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.

• 401k plan with employer matching.

• Global benefit programs tailored to your lifestyle, covering workspace, professional development, and caregiving support.

• Family planning assistance.

• Gender-affirming care.

• Mental health and coaching benefits.

• Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.

• Generous paid parental leave.

• Equity in the form of restricted stock units.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous time off policies for vacation and parental leave.

• Option to opt-out of interview recording.