3 months ago
Base Salary
$217k - $303k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of global media processing and delivery infrastructure for low-latency, high-availability video and audio experiences.
- Build and optimize resilient backend services for video and audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing.
- Partner with ML and AI teams on roadmaps for media recommendation, intelligent content moderation, and generative AI inference.
- Establish engineering best practices, design next-generation media services, and define SLOs and SLAs for media operations.
- Mentor and guide multiple engineering teams while translating product requirements into technical roadmaps and driving organizational alignment.
- Use AI-assisted development tools for prototyping, system design, and coding while validating and owning final outputs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer.
- Expertise designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction without directly managing engineers.
- Ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives and balance technical excellence with business impact.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
- Family planning support.
- Gender-affirming care.
- Mental health and coaching benefits.
- Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
- Generous paid parental leave.
- Interview recording, transcription, and AI summarization may be used, with an option to opt out.
- US-based base salary range is $217,000-$303,000 per year.
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About Reddit
Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.