Staff Software Engineer, Media Experience

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 Staff Software Engineer to help build the next version of our media infrastructure. In this role, you will define the work on the technical components of how we ingest, process, store, and deliver video and audio content at Reddit. 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.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
• Review code and design docs, give feedback on product specs and mocks.
• 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.
• Collaborate with client engineers and platform engineers to improve performance of media across Reddit.

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 7+ 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.
• Familiarity with image processing and delivery technologies such as image scaling, cropping, and image formats like progressive JPEG, WebP, etc.
• Familiarity with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, and other streaming protocols, as well as video compression standards (H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1).
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
• Excellent communication skills; you collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

• Demonstrated curiosity and commitment to staying up-to-date with advancements in video compression technologies.
• Strong understanding of how to measure and improve video visual quality metrics (e.g., VMAF, PSNR).
• Hands-on expertise with tools like FFMPEG, GPAC and similar media frameworks.
• Experienced with client-side technologies, familiarity with the client library around media (e.g., AVFoundation, VideoToolbox, video prefetching).
• Familiar with background data fetching.
• Strong data analysis skills using SQL.

The base salary range for this position is $217,000—$303,000 USD. 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. Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.

To apply, please use the provided application link.