Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform
About The Position
Reddit is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Core Platform team. This team is responsible for the APIs that power Reddit's listings, posts, comments, and other core data models, handling millions of API requests. The Senior Engineer will act as a technical coach and mentor, ensuring high uptime and performance of these systems. They will contribute to building a roadmap, developing and scaling features and services for real-time experiences, and directly impacting hundreds of millions of users globally. The role involves building and scaling exciting features and services to create real-time experiences and spark connections, fueling Reddit's future growth.
Requirements
- Software development experience in Golang or Python
- 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
- History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Media delivery expertise from back end systems to the user. Experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving different stages of the stack.
Responsibilities
- Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit
- Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization
- Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission
- Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9’s of availability
- Help us to optimize Reddit’s media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit 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
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- generous time off for vacation
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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