5 months ago
Base Salary
$217k - $303k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of global media processing and delivery infrastructure
- Build and optimize resilient backend services for video and audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing
- Partner with cross-functional and ML/AI teams on media product opportunities, recommendations, content understanding, and GenAI roadmaps
- Establish engineering best practices and define the next generation of media services, including strict SLOs and SLAs
- Mentor and guide multiple engineering teams while translating product requirements into technical roadmaps
- Use and evangelize AI-assisted development tools while validating and owning final outputs
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer
- Expertise designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices
- Ability to influence technical direction and balance performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing engineers
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives
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
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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.