Senior Software Engineer

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet, with 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.

We are seeking a product-minded Senior Software Engineer to help build the next generation of media creation tools at Reddit. In this role, you will define the backend architecture that powers how Redditors capture, edit, and publish engaging video and image content. You will tackle complex technical challenges to support our media product strategy and deliver high-quality media experiences globally.

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features.
• Own backend infrastructure for media creation, building fast, maintainable APIs that seamlessly integrate with frontend clients to provide a real-time creator experience.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers.
• Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers.
• Move fast while balancing quality.

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++).
• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Redis.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
• Excellent communication skills, collaborating effectively in a fully remote environment.

• Proven track record of strong product thinking, with experience translating complex user workflows (like video editing timelines or AI generation tools) into robust backend state management.
• Experience building asynchronous media processing pipelines and scalable event-driven microservices.
• Familiar with background data fetching.
• Strong data analysis skills using SQL.
• Hands-on expertise with tools like FFMPEG, GPAC and similar media frameworks for processing, modifying, and manipulating media streams.

• 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

The base salary range for this position is $190,000—$267,000 USD. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.