Reddit

Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

Reddit
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$191k - $267k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and design solutions that scale Reddit
  • Build platform API projects for organization-wide use
  • Mentor and coach junior engineers
  • Build, deliver, and operate services handling hundreds of thousands of transactions per second with five or more nines of availability
  • Optimize Reddit’s media experience and help shape the engineering roadmap

Requirements

  • Software development experience in Golang or Python
  • 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems
  • Familiarity with API platform service architectures
  • Experience building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Media delivery expertise spanning backend systems through the user, including media performance, scalability, and delivery optimization
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical audiences in a fully remote environment

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
  • Fully remote environment

Tech Stack

Categories

Reddit

About Reddit

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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