Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build our listings, enabling posts, comments, media and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit.

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
• Optimize Reddit’s media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world

Requirements

• Software development experience in Golang or Python
• 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems

Qualifications

• 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

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

Pay

• The Base Salary Range For This Position Is $190,800—$267,100 USD

Schedule

• To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/