Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It hosts 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, making it one of the internet's largest sources of information.

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 listings, enabling posts, comments, media, and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit. As a Senior Engineer on this team, you'll be a technical coach and mentor, ensuring high uptime and strong performance while building a roadmap to match the needs of a growing engineering organization.

• 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
• Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9's of availability
• Help optimize Reddit's media experience for hundreds of millions of users worldwide

• Software development experience in Golang or Python
• 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills; partner effectively in a fully remote environment
• 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

Base salary range: $190,800—$267,100 USD. Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, 401(k) with employer match, flexible vacation, paid parental leave, family planning support, gender-affirming care, mental health coaching, and global benefit programs.

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